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this thread is starting to look very nice... you "SentraSE-R"
I just remembered something from my childhood days in the mid 80's growing up in Romania, only very few people had personal cars in those days and it was just bus/train anywhere and it was very-very crowded most of the time. We used to visit my grandparents every other weekend and that was about 1 hour away by bus. Those buses were horrendous back then, slow, always having a strong smell of Diesel inside that used to make people feel nauseous.
Anyway, the stick shift part of the story is that these buses were all stick shift, as pretty much any vehicles (automatics were a rare site) and being very old those things were something of a battle for the driver to change the speed. It was also located quite far from his chair, sometimes they would have to lift up from the seat..Also those things had a huge travel, going like entire feet each way and being that the bus was always packed to the brim and people were always standing on the corridor, sometimes the drivers had to tell people to move so he can change gears. It was fun for me as a small child but my parents and other adults were always frustrated about the transportation. If I found some pics of the cabins of those old buses I will post it.
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