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From left to right clutch, brake, gas and starter and it looks like the floor of jeep
you forgot the high/low beam light button top left.
You right I didn’t pay enough attention
Don’t forget the button left of the clutch, the headlight hi/low switch. My old Ford pickup still has one of those. I learned to drive in an old Chevy pickup with the floor starter. Kids are baffled when I tell them car keys used to be just to lock the doors.
I had a Mustang with a pedal pump for the windshield washer too.
Oh-yep forgot about the pump for the windshield washer.
While not a pedal, the long rod on the far right is the gear shifter. Goes along with the clutch.
looks like the overdrive pedal
>>>From left to right clutch, brake, gas and starter
Driving on the Left side of the road has its own challenges, but it’s especially fun to rent a stick shift when you do. The order on my South African rental (back in the day) from left to right was gas, clutch, brake. Or was it gas, brake, clutch? Anyhow it was surprisingly confusing, since many of our driving habits become ‘semi-instinctual’ and take a bit of time to unlearn.
oh dear that would make every red light fun..
How went the strike? Were all of those pedals idle on 15 Aug 2021?
Couldn’t find anything anywhere, MSM talking about it but I didn’t find anything concrete. Strikes have been hijacked by commie unions. First thing I looked up when I got up.
Thank you.
Upper far left for high/low beam dimmer switch?
yes
Theft deterrent devises.
There’s a video of a guy jacking a pickup in a parking lot. He jumps in the cab, then moments later jumps out and runs off. Apparently he couldn’t drive a stick shift.
I so miss driving a stick. 1984 VW Rabbit GTI. The original pocket rocket.
My 2005 Toyota Camry is a stick shift. Yeah, a Camry. It was fully assembled in Japan, not Kentucky, and as a result, was NEVER subjected to ANY of the recalls of the past 10+ years. The anti-theft aspect of the manual transmission is just another benefit.
Liberty,
That’s some funny shit. You can leave the keys in the car without fear of theft.
Nobody young and dumb enough to steal it knows how to use a stick n clutch anymore.
When discussing knee replacement surgery with the surgeon he said do the left one first and you can drive after 2 weeks. Do the right one and it’s 4 weeks. I said what about my F250 with a manual transmission?
He laughed and asked if they still made those. I said they did in 1983 when I bought it.
Did the right one first in April. Left one scheduled for next month.
Hmm, I see on the far left the headlight dimmer, one over is the clutch pedal, then brake, then accelerator and it appears underneath that is the starter switch, but it only works after you turn the key. How’d I do?
Yes I know but I work in a shop that restores and modifies vehicles. Every once in awhile i hafta google search how to open a hood……………
In my defense it was a 53 year old British car that uses OMG rope to open the door.
Jim,
Should be a covered wire cable (unless the cable broke and they replaced it
with rope).
My first car was a used ’59 MGA. Same setup. No outside door handle or
key-hole — made for beautiful uninterrupted lines on the side panel.
Also not lockable, but theft was not a big problem then, in the segregated
South.
So I understand there is a move afoot (no pun intended) to move the brights switch back to the floorboard.
Blondes keep getting their feet tangled in the steering wheel.
My blonde wife thinks the bright switch is to help her think better.
She told me it turns on her high beams…
The condition of that carpet in a 40’s-50’s era car is in pretty good shape.
I like the starter button on the far right. Some of those gearshifters had a button on top; some on the dash, that engaged an overdrive. That’s why a little flathead Rambler American could get as high as 39 mpg. The best part was there were NO COMPUTERS, and major electrical problems in the engine were either in the points and condenser, or coil, and that was it.
So wrong TBPers, this is the instrument panel of Powell Motors – The Homer
controls from left to right:
[] X-ray beam
[] Rear brake
[] Front brake
[] Emergency brake
[] Pilot eject
Steering column adjustment? Clutch,Brake,Throttle, and a switch wired to drop your cultivator openers into the ground or activate the pump on your sprayer?