One of the hardest things (for me) in adapting myself to English driving was the gearshift. As others have indicated, the shift pattern is the same, it's just that you've gotta do it with your left hand. It would have been easier for me if the pattern had been a mirror image of the LHD pattern. I just couldn't seem to make my hand move the correct way.

But yes, get that 5-speed out and into a LHD car. You should be able to take the shifter and linkage and all. Not sure of the clutch linkage, that may take some imagination. By the way, I suspect that the LHD car's engine will need a pilot bearing installed for the clutch and I don't know what that will entail (advice, anyone?). Then put an automatic in the RHD car and sell it to a rural delivery person, as Ken300D suggests.

A simpler solution might be to keep the car and become a rural delivery person yourself.

Jeremy

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