Hi Daytona Vette cheers the main reason for thinking that, you started getting my grey cells working again naming local companies and places etc.
Remember when you put Custom Maid in one of your reply's, I replied back that Custom Maid rebuilt my XJS automatic box because it was fitted to US cars and I put photos of my XJS on my post.
I know back then Aston Martin and Jaguar were not under the same umbrella company but thought because the automatic gearbox was so complex they could have bought US boxes, especially as the US had been building them for years.
This post could be getting a bit black and macabre. (Quizical)
Because you mentioned automatic boxes out selling stick shifts, the facts 34838 automatic and 5726 stick shifts.
I thought I would add to the post that I purchased my 1980 Corvette from a shipping millionaire and it was a stick shift.
There were 2 reason for automatic boxes out stripping stick shifts sales, one I would expect the Americans liked autos and two you could only get the L82 slightly higher 190 BHP engine in auto, all stick shifts were L48’s 180 BHP engines.
Now for the black and macabre part, when I purchased my car from Andres Ugland of Ugland shipping lines he told me he and his brother had bought a 1980 Corvette each while in the States, Andres wanted a stick shift and his brother wanted the slightly larger L82 engine.
I have just done a Google search for Andres Ugland and he has just recently passed away, please read below.
Investment banker, shipping merchant and owner of Cayman Islands Motor Museum, Andreas Ove Ugland has passed away after a short illness. Died: 18 April 2019
Born in Norway on March 8 1955, he was 64 years old.
The Cayman Motor Museum was the realization of Ugland's vision to have a local showroom for his collection of 80 rare, exotic classic cars and motorbikes, 'including a yellow Rolls-Royce from the 1964 film of the same title, starring Ingrid Bergman, Elton John’s old Bentley, and Peter Sellers’s Ferrari and the Batmobile, built for the 1960s television series,' according to Powerboat racing world magazine.
"Before assembling our collection in Cayman," said Mr. Ugland, "our motorcars were scattered throughout the world with many of them in England, Canada, and my home country of Norway. My wife, Natalie, and I conceived the notion of bringing them all to Cayman for the people of these islands, and our visitors, to enjoy."
Ugland and his wife Natalie were also advocates and supporters of Caymanian culture and the arts.
Worth checking out the museum website.
Cayman Motor Museum – Grand Cayman And to think I am only 5 weeks older than Andreas.
although I am retired I have been busy today so not had the time to play Quizical, may have a go tomorrow, I don't think my first thoughts are the answer to your Quizical.
