Hiring an automatic car - clutch leg in cast?

roneik

I cant stop laughing at the metro driver.If he jumped off Eiffel tower he would have sustained less bones broken,
What an awful car. Did you say it's only a flesh wound every time they smothered you in plaster? British engineering gone wrong big style . :j

Gloomendoom

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Before that I broke my elbow in about 1980 and had it set at a 60 degree angle so it was quite usable even though it was in a cast from armpit to wrist. I drove then - I'm guessing it would be a problem these days but I had full control.

I broke my elbow in 1997 and was explicitly told not to drive, despite telling them that my car was an auto.

I've also had three or four (manual) Metros, rolled one down an embankment and didn't even get a scratch. Great cars.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

roneik wrote: »

I cant stop laughing at the metro driver.If he jumped off Eiffel tower he would have sustained less bones broken,
What an awful car. Did you say it's only a flesh wound every time they smothered you in plaster? British engineering gone wrong big style . :j

The biggest problem with the Metro was that in those days you still had carburetors and manual chokes, and from cold getting a choke set right was an art form, and getting it wrong meant that the car would stall.

I lived on a main road and reversed out onto the road, and the damn thing stuttered. On an auto you can't dip the clutch and get some revs, so I was sat there for ages popping and spluttering until I managed to find the magic combination of choke and accelerator. People driving these days have no idea what it was like driving a car before electronic ignition which transformed the way cars worked (aside from braking systems that could stop cars in straight lines - another feature missing from Metros and cars of the same generation).

I've broken about a bone per decade since I was born, 60s (playground ice slide broken collar bone), 70s - student drunkenness (elbow, fell flat on back, drunk), 80s - skiing (bl**dy snowboarder), 90s - cycling (slippery road, hip), 2000s - walking (ankle, pavement trip), 2010s skiing (shoulder, well arm, avoiding incompetent skier on a red run who stopped suddenly across my path in the middle of the run). I've been lucky, none of them have been bad breaks in that I've never needed an op. Broken bones don't hurt that much either, just the damage you do at the same time. I can recommend Direct Travel insurance though!