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The bottom was worn out before termites and beetles could do their job, wooden shoes were cheap footwear intended for quick replacement.

Cheers,
Angel

 

It remind me a personal story which I am not proud of:
I went to Medemblik in 1968 to participate on a one man sailing boat contest.
We did (the whole crew, designer and builder was there) so bad that a local guy who was watching the race told me: You are the only guy on earth who succeed to import wood shoes in Netherland.

 

That's funny!

 

Ah... think I've found the design here . . .

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Cheers,
Angel

 

Silly question: Do people try to drive automobiles wearing klompen? How does that work out?

 

Here's a discussion of Dutch truck drivers about ‘‘klompen’’

I didn't read it, so don't know if it answers your questions, maybe Google translate will tell . . .

Cheers,
Angel

 

Yes they do!
I sometimes drive with wooden shoes, but it's safer when youre driving with an automatic gearbox

 

Thanks to Angel and J! I drive a stick so I will avoid the klompen for that task.

 

- handy thing to have at Halloween!

 

I guess I should have written stick shift.

 

I heard on TV that stickshifts are becoming less and less popular. Personally I regard gear shifting as the car's job, like adjusting the choke, mixture and advance/retard. Stickshifts are an anachronism, like the 8-track. I laughed at my brother-in-law when he ordered his sports car with one. He was apparently unaware that stickshifts haven't been used in race cars for decades. He countered by claiming that both I and my cars were stodgy - my cars have been wagons* and minivans for decades.

He was quite right of course, but apparently it wasn't meant as a compliment . . .

* waggon for Brits . . .

 

I have a stick shift in my Nissan pickup. When the transmission went out after well over 200,000 miles, I bought a rebuilt replacement for a few hundred bucks - instead of spending what replacing an automatic transmission would have cost me. I went crazy and replaced the clutch while I was at it, but it really wasn't necessary. It still had plenty of wear left.

I don't mind shifting at all; most of the time I don't even think about it. I've been doing it since I learned to drive at age fourteen in a WWII surplus Jeep, and it's as natural as breathing to me.

 

I will never own another automatic if I can avoid it. Damn things are too costly to fix.

 

Id imigine that in the near future , in the search for fuel economy, there will be no manual transmissions.

 

In the right hands, a manual transmission is even more economical.