<VV> hand controls and stick shift

[J R Read_HML]

Replying to myself....  I do that in REAL life too.  <GRIN>

I had misread Scotty's comment.  It is the Rt leg which is troublesome, so 
we (might) need a hand operated throttle control and a power assist on the 
brake pedal.  Perhaps a "throttle grip" attached to the shift lever or to 
the steering column just below the wheel (as more or less suggested by Bill 
Elliott) would take care of the fuel control?

My first "antique" car - in about 1960 or so - was a 1936 Ford.  That car 
had both the "normal" skinny pedal AND a hand throttle which was a rod you 
pulled toward you from the dash.  You could use either to control fuel. 
There were two "pull outs" - one for throttle and one for choke.

A funny story on that is that my Dad was a close friend of the Ford dealer 
in town and I recall a story he (car dealer) told about the hand throttle 
when he first saw my car.  It seems that one of the local farmers (years 
before) who lived a few miles out of town was constantly coming in to have 
the hand throttle replaced.  After a few of them, they asked him just how it 
was that he was breaking so many.  His answer... "When I head for town, I 
just pull it all the way out and bend it over to hold it in place."  I 
sometimes think that this eventually became "cruise control" on more modern 
cars.

Later, JR