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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:35

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Yeah it’s weird there isn’t an L for low gear on the automatic...

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:35

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Do you mean aside from Reverse being on the wrong side?

Klaus Schmoll > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:37

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Our old friend Manuel also suffers from this affliction.

Party-vi > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:37

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LOLOLOLOL that 1-to-2 shift must be a bitch!

extraspecialbitter > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:38

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So this is why the F-Type didn’t come with a stick.

Tripper > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:39

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lol wow, it took me too long to catch that

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Party-vi 11/19/2015 at 13:39

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How about 3 to 4? Yikes.

ttyymmnn > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 11/19/2015 at 13:40

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That's where it is on my Golf. Which explains why nobody can seem to find it.

Jcarr > Party-vi 11/19/2015 at 13:41

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Snoop will show you how to shift it:

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 11/19/2015 at 13:41

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Yes actually. Keep looking :)

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 11/19/2015 at 13:42

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Took me a while to find the error

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:43

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Oh dear...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Klaus Schmoll 11/19/2015 at 13:44

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Too much tequila.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:44

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So what is BBC Motowars?

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > ttyymmnn 11/19/2015 at 13:44

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It was the same place on my E30. Every other manual I’ve had has had it down and to the right, which is my preferred location. I got into an avoidable accident in the E30 because in a panic I just couldn’t get out of reverse and into first gear, because it just isn’t natural to me.

Cé hé sin > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:46

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Odd?

Odder:

. . > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 11/19/2015 at 13:46

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It’s just a thing they do on their Facebook page.

BeaterGT > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 11/19/2015 at 13:47

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T56 is up and to the right.

ttyymmnn > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 11/19/2015 at 13:47

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I’ve been driving VWs for more than 30 years, so it’s just second nature to me.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:47

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From 3 to 4 would be absolutely horrible.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:50

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How about this real one?

http://www.commercialmotor.com/big-lorry-blog…

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:52

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At least it’s off in a consistent way, unlike a lot of old Ford and other tractors.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 11/19/2015 at 13:54

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Haha I noticed, I just wanted to call out that it wasn’t PRNDL

you don’t shift 123 on the top 456 on the bottom (that’s asinine)

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > . . 11/19/2015 at 13:55

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Also this is a real one.

From my ‘79 924.

It took some getting used to, but it was best not to try to guide it into the next higher gear. You would just slap it up or down and it would go the right place.

The weird thing was down shifting into second for turns. I always wanted to put it in first because I was so used to 2nd being there.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/19/2015 at 13:57

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Yea but you shift to the gear you want and leave it in a tractor, you aren’t constantly shifting up and down so tractors get a pass in my book

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 11/19/2015 at 14:01

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There’s probably a difference between “the box made it convenient to set up that way” and “absolutely zero fucks were given - possibly even negative”. I’m not sure where it lies.

Cé hé sin > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 11/19/2015 at 14:04

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Oh, a dogleg first! They were quite a thing once, the theory being that once you were underway you wouldn’t need first again.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Cé hé sin 11/19/2015 at 14:09

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There’s quite a distinguished list of cars that had one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-leg_g…

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/19/2015 at 14:11

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I like the idea of negative fucks given. I’m just imagining some engineer purposely making his job harder just to fuck with people haha

jjhats > . . 11/19/2015 at 14:20

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1-4 aka corvette shift

Rainbow > Cé hé sin 11/19/2015 at 14:22

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Is that from a truck with two levers? Like you just shift the other one down to go to 2nd, then keep it down and shift up to 3rd like in a car, then you just push it back up to go into 4th, and so on? Is that how that works? Because that makes a lot of sense and if it doesn’t work that way, someone should make it work that way.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rainbow 11/19/2015 at 14:34

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Yep - truck with two levers, in which the two gear ranges overlap. So, rather than indicating “1-5” and leaving it up to you to know where your gears are, they mark the gears *combinations* in the actual sequence they are linear. There are worse combinations than this out there - this setup is using a broad jump between gears and a very small split-shift ratio change, so the 1+extra is still lower than what would be 2nd, etc. The only two gears that are closer to each other than the split-shift jump are what would be 4 and 5 if it were marked that way.

Below is an example of a really narrow gearbox with wide split shift that shifts logically all the way to the top - with a granny gear. In other words, the opposite way to do it.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Cé hé sin 11/19/2015 at 14:49

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Oh yeah! This is the standard 10-speed manual that you see in the movies, all the time!

RazoE > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 11/19/2015 at 15:09

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or not enough.

RazoE > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/19/2015 at 15:10

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No drag racing for you!

Cé hé sin > Rainbow 11/19/2015 at 17:11

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Yes, it’s a four speed attached to a two speed so you have low and high versions of each gear. The odd part is the right hand gears where there isn’t a logical sequence.

Cé hé sin > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 11/19/2015 at 17:24

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I saw a video somewhere of something like that being used with a Foden two stroke. You had a four speed main box and a three speed auxiliary one, but you could only use the top gear of the auxiliary box in conjunction with fourth, giving the blue eigth gear. No, I don’t know why 5,6 and 7 don’t correspond to 2,3, and 4.

You had to rev the two stroke unmercifully and the noise levels were sufficient to waken the dead from their slumber.