Fred Basset by Alex Graham for June 14, 2016

Just discovered after many years that their vehicle has the steering wheel on the right side indicating that it must take place in Britain

Yes Don, I am afraid to say that Fred Basset is as English as tea and buscuits.

Yes it does take some skill to drive a standard shift vs automatic ! Good luck !

Remind me to tell you sometime about my adventures driving in the UK.

As a woman who has driven various stick shift cars for over 40 years (started with 3 gears now up to 5) I would tell this lunkhead to get out and walk.

enjoy the ride Fred! ignore the blah blah lol!

Front seat driver…

Hubby almost froze when at our hostess’ wheel and going up a hill. Got a bit confused and almost caused an accident. He was an excellent driver in the States, but…

don beardenYou should have picked up on other clues, like pets in pubs, “our” and “re” endings, etc. In the early days, many US newspapers “flipped” the cartoon so the steering was left, but somehow did not reverse the balloons nor the orthography. Bizarro often will flip the drawing, newspaper vs. here.

Now then, regarding the right-hand drive British cars: Is the gearshift pattern a mirror image of the ones in the States? Do you get to the higher gears by moving the stick to the left?

Uncle bobTypically.

It threw me off…The steering wheel is on the wrong side….