Making a four-on-the-tree, has anyone tried this?

circlepilot said
In 1968,
I drove an early model Datsun, right side steering, 4 speed on the column, from Tokyo to Tachikawa Japan, with two drunk GIs. One in the back seat and the other one up front as a navigator, (his car) never having driven a right steering car on the right side of the road and no Japanese driver's license. I was "technically sober." :steering:

I used to have a Datsun pickup with the 4 on the tree pattern until my Brother “borrowed” it without permission and blew the motor because he couldn’t find out how to get to 3rd and 4th.
You had to pull the lever out away from the column, then up for 3rd and straight down for 4th if I remember correctly.