If I remember correctly, Ian, you're not exactly deviod in the muscle department. Unlike me...:-) In fact the only reason it's not difficult in LHD is because the centre console makes a great elbow-rest Martin (who has a gearbox with only 3000 miles on it and is lovely and slick :-P ) #1458 ian wrote: > Baloney Martin, > > Thank god the gearstick is the same on rhd and lhd. Could you imagine the > problems folks like myself, Chris Parnham, Mark Bourne, Dave Howarth, etc > would have when we get out of our lhd-DMC and into our rhd-DMC ... it would > be mayhem trying to remember which way to change gear!!! > > Cheers, IAN > *****************