Ultimate daily-driver Gen II A Body to build
Different strokes for different folks...
Agreed. I was just sharing my thoughts since I had walked a similar path many moons ago.
For what it's worth, I have to still ask myself the question "auto or manual" since my wife doesn't like sticks. So, whatever transmission I chose has a huge impact on which car we could take on a trip. If I stick to my first love and keep building manual cars, it means I will either have to leave my car behind if we make a long trip (e.g. the Mopar Nationals), or accept that we can't switch driver's during the trip. I love to drive and it's not unusual for me to drive the entire trip when we go someplace, but those are usually only 8-10 hour trips, not the 3-4 day trips one way that I dream of in my UDD (Ultimate Daily Driver).
I've thought about something like an electronicly shifted auto that would lock up the converter and hold a gear if I wanted, and maybe be configured to shift automatically and with a soft shift with the touch of a button, but it just doesn't feel like a manual to me. Most of the high end new cars are going to some kind of a computer shifted manual, and you can even get a kit to shift a T56 that way (I think), but I don't think it would feel the same to me.
To each his own.
