"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:20 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

Here's a strange one, that was guaranteed to screw anyone up the first
twenty times they tried it: The Morgan 4/4, which was the smaller, very
low-profile one with the four-banger Ford engine, had the entire 4-speed
pattern reversed. Reverse was to the right and back. First was next to it.
Fourth was forward and to the left.

The transmission was pretty far forward in the car, so the shift lever was
pivoted in the middle, before it went forward to the actual shift stalk
coming out of the transmission.

That 'splains it. Linkage effectively reversed the motion. What can be
even more fun is when someone sticks the wrong shift knob, complete
with someone else's shift pattern, on it.


When I first drove one of those things I'd almost come to a stop, in
neutral, while my brain re-adjusted.

I'll bet!

Hmm. I got it partly wrong, partly right. The forward-and-back was normal,
but the left-right was reversed. After 40 years, my brain takes a half-hour
or so for the cobwebs to clear out. d8-)

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Ed Huntress