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Images via Le Container<\/em>, Chevrolet<\/em>…<\/p>\n

We’re geting pretty excited about our trip to California.<\/p>\n

Yes, for the next couple of weeks we’ll be street spotting and blogging on a road trip between San Francisco to San Diego; taking every opportunity to have a look at contemporary California car and bike culture along the way.<\/p>\n

Whilst roving around the webs in search of inspiration, we found this rather lovely image of one of the definitive icons of Automotive Americana: the Four on the Floor stick shift.<\/p>\n

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It might have arisen as just the simplest way to access a gearbox with a front engined, rear wheel drive set up : but stirring that box straight into the axle entails a certain feeling of mechanicity, a clunky, positive surity that’s lacking in most modern cars.<\/p>\n

And funnily enough this simple way of changing cogs has, as is the way of all things American and mid-century, been transmuted into something of an icon. Lovely example from a Corvette here too.<\/p>\n

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We can forgive Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys anything. But we can’t forgive Mike Love’s ‘interpretive gestures’.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for Cali-centric updates!<\/p>\n

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