After an Injury, This Car Fan Designed a New Way to Drive

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This recent graduate was so determined to get back to driving with manual transmission after an injury that he built his own hand-control system

By A.J. Baime Aug. 18, 2020 1:32 pm ET Irwin Gill, 23, a recent graduate of California State University at Fullerton living in Long Beach, Calif., on his 2005 BMW 530i with hand controls, as told to A.J. Baime.

I am a car enthusiast and one of the things I missed was driving a manual-transmission car , because I no longer had the use of my legs. With time, my left leg started to regain function, but not my right. I would sit in my friends’ cars and work the clutch pedal for 30 minutes with my left leg, to strengthen it. Finally I decided to buy a car.

.webui-slideshow-inset a:link, .webui-slideshow-inset .webui-slideshow-inset a:visited { color: initial; } Photos: This 2005 BMW 530i Was Just RightThe recent graduate needed a car roomy enough to hold a wheelchair and with the stick shift that he missed Irwin Gill had specific requirements when he went in search of a car: a roomy interior big enough to hold a wheelchair, a manual transmission, and a pricetag not over $4,000. He ended up with this 2005 BMW 530i.

 

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'Necessity is the mother of invention .'

Yeah, technological/scientific inertia is a problem. We can do better now than keep kicking cars.

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