Manual valve body benefits?

I went TF because I can no longer handle heavy clutches. I bought a used "non" low band apply, reverse pattern, and just love it.

I realize most of us don't drive in the snow with these girls, but that WOULD be a "real world" example of how damn handy a manual VB could be. You can start in any gear, so in snow, ice, you could "lug" it into 2 or 3, and if careful, IE not applying huge throttle, you won't overheat the converter and do damage.

These are pretty handy around "town," with that cop givin you the eye from "over there." Well ****, LOL, we'll just ease around the corner in second instead of first, LOL, and have almost no chance of accidently barking the tires into 2nd.

One "advantage" of the "non" low band apply, is that if "something should happen" and you mistakenly end up in 1st at 70 mph, bad things are guaranteed with a low band apply VB. You'll either slide the rear tires and whatever happens next, or you might feed a valve to a piston.

You want to have a VERY well adjusted and precise shifter for one of these to prevent just that sort of thing. I'm currently running a BM "Pro stick" and have now "figured it out." But I also bought a used Cheetah (on here) and will eventually use it. "As built" the Cheetah is not optimum for a reverse pattern, but is usable, and you can get a reverse pattern detent plate for around 50-55 bucks.

I'm sure folks use these with ratchet shifters, but I don't like them, and I bought one used. If "something should happen" like blowing a rear end, and you NEED to get it into neutral, there's no way, with a ratchet, to "get past" low gear.