>I am pretty used to driving anything anywhere nowadays,

Me too, people do a bit of a double take when I claim to have done all four
possible variations of cars and driving on left or right roads.

>but when
>I'm driving a left-hand-drive manual gearbox, I still have a
>tendency to bang my hand on the door when I go to change gear...

heh heh, I learnt to drive on a 1958 Wolsley 6/90. It had a stubby floor
shift beside the drivers door - in this case on the RHS as it was a RH drive
car. They used a column change box with a different linkage to get to the
stick. I believe the Morris Isis of the same vintage used the same
arrangement.

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