Another boring old story from the old days

By the way I pulled this out with a floor jack out at the RADAR shop. Original RR exhaust is welded which makes that a huge PITA

Before I joined the Navy I could not afford a 4 speed in my 57 Chev, I used to collect 3 speeds cheap. The 55-57 as you probably know, had no rear crossmember. I could swap out a 3 speed in about 15 minutes. When I joined the Navy in the spring of 68, I had an even dozen first-reverse "sliders" in the trunk of a parts car.......all broken.