https://thecurbshop.com/collections/tmgps
https://thecurbshop.com/collections/tmgps
Ha. So I wasn’t hallucinating.
Five gears!
Drivers today can’t even master the standard three gears shift lever.
I learned on a column 3-speed. Overdrive looked like a tiny hand brake.
Later, I had to drive a column 4-speed, with reverse forward and down. Then along came the VW beetle, whose 4-speed layout made sense; still, reverse was press-down, left, and back. My 1971 VW Camper was (and today, is) the same.
Then I bought a Porsche 914/6, [901] 5-speed, where first gear was left and back. A friend’s Porsche Turbo was different yet again. Some were 5-speeds—some were 4.
:-/
My 1991 BMW [318is] and my present 1995 Nissan Pickup [D-21] are conventional 5-speeds.
Long live the standard gearbox!
;)