Tech to adapt a manual car

So as many of you will know I am after a classic Beetle. Thing is it's not as easy A.Finding a decent one, or one I like, and B. with me being an amputee I have the additional problem of being able to adapt a car so that I can drive it.

Awesome bit of kit

That said I upon doing a spot of research I have discovered firstly a company who has made and developed a Semi-Automatic Syncro clutch system, they are called Guidosimplex. The gentleman I spoke to named Gerard was most helpful and has put me in touch with a company here in the North East called Bewick Mobility.

Once I contacted Bewick Mobility, the gentleman there named Matthew couldn't do enough for me and was spot on in offering advice and really made me feel special in his email responses, something I think is lost sometimes these days, when there is no face to face contact.

Being an amputee or indeed having any disability, always comes at a premium, so I am looking at around the £3000 mark to have this piece of tech fitted to a potential car.

Matthew did suggest I look into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - 

Access to Work Scheme. I am in two minds as to try this route, as it involves more paperwork and well like a lot of people out there I do not fully trust the government's agencies. They may deny me in the hope my leg is going to miraculously grow back one day.

And so my search goes on for the next love of my life. I will be sure to blog a lot more with pictures of my next ride, and of course, the clutch adaption, as I think those that follow my blog may be interested and hopefully it is of some use if you would like to follow the same route.