This 3-speed trans is gonna have to go...

You guys are making a lot of ASSumptions here.

1. Who the hell said anything about a cellphone? Where did that come from? Is that another one of those "auto-fill" responses that get posted whenever the words "two" "hands" "steering" "wheel" end up in the same post?

2. Then, I would like to know how many of you are driving 3-speed manual-steering A-bodies with no air conditioning everyday and I want proof if you claim so. I don't think it will be many. It's more likely those automatic Dakota's, new mega-buck Challengers or the other stuff I see posted in the daily-driver threads, or the Toyota's, Nissans, Hyundai's, Kia's and Subaru's a good percentage DON'T dare post in the daily driver threads. So don't lecture me about easy-to-drive cars. If everyone liked 3-speed column-shifted non-synchro transmissions so much, why they would still be offered on new cars, wouldn't they?

3. As much power-shifting as I do at the dragstrip,....I think I know how to drive pretty much anything by now, even with only hand on the wheel:)

4. Do you guys REALLY think I know as little about that car as you ASSume...? Really?

5. Ok..ok..ok...you've shamed me into never taking my cellphone with me whenever I drive that Valiant, driving with the windows up on a hot day, and anything else that could make me suffer enough to be a real man...YEAH!!

Here's my 64-yo friend driving that same car....looks like he's having fun.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfN1zZDPm-U"]Uncle Phil drives the '73 three on the tree Valiant - YouTube[/ame]