Crazy project at work

A Jeep could be a great candidate for size, and I'd like to see it, but not so sure it holds with the "out of the TRUNK" concept. Not that it won't be one of my suggestions!
 
DODGE ASPEN / PLYMOUTH VOLARE driven by the Leaning Tower of Power ( Chrysler 225 slant 6 for the kids in the audience )
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took drivers ed in one with a 3spd on the floor
 
Gotta be a three on the tree dude.

I'm with ya, I'd have preferred it, but not everyone comprehends ( I worked in a shop where a tech was adamant about NOT driving one because he couldn't understand how shifted, made me wonder about his other work.....)

I'd love an old Ford F-100 or E-100 with 3 on the tree again. absolute blast to drive !
 
I'm with ya, I'd have preferred it, but not everyone comprehends ( I worked in a shop where a tech was adamant about NOT driving one because he couldn't understand how shifted, made me wonder about his other work.....)

I'd love an old Ford F-100 or E-100 with 3 on the tree again. absolute blast to drive !
At 16, I learned to drive stick on a '64 Malibu wagon base model w/ 3 on a tree. No power brakes or steering.
Everything after that was cake.

People talk like 3 on a tree is hard to understand, I don't get it. It's exactly the same pattern, just sideways/turned 90 degrees. And, well, minus 2 more gears.
 
I'm with ya, I'd have preferred it, but not everyone comprehends ( I worked in a shop where a tech was adamant about NOT driving one because he couldn't understand how shifted,

He woulda had a meltdown if he'd got it hung up in the drive thru line at McDonalds.
 
At 16, I learned to drive stick on a '64 Malibu wagon base model w/ 3 on a tree. No power brakes or steering.
Everything after that was cake.

People talk like 3 on a tree is hard to understand, I don't get it. It's exactly the same pattern, just sideways/turned 90 degrees. And, well, minus 2 more gears.
I drove a bunch of em but never had one that you could always go from 3rd to 1st without it getting hung up.Almost always had to go from 3rd to 2nd then 1st.
 
At 16, I learned to drive stick on a '64 Malibu wagon base model w/ 3 on a tree. No power brakes or steering.
Everything after that was cake.

People talk like 3 on a tree is hard to understand, I don't get it. It's exactly the same pattern, just sideways/turned 90 degrees. And, well, minus 2 more gears.

Logic, some have it, and well some don't

I learned on a '73 F-100 in the ice and snow of the midwest, I was old enough to drive but young enough I was still sober... so I was DD and well, beer run in a blizzard. was the best 4 mile 2hr ride I'd ever had
 
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I drove a bunch of em but never had one that you could always go from 3rd to 1st without it getting hung up.Almost always had to go from 3rd to 2nd then 1st.

lol, I have no idea how many times I had to pull over, lift the hood, reach over to the shift forks and push it back into place, drop it and carry on my way.
One winter the 30 y/o grease in the column got so thick and nasty it would basically freeze, all I could do was get it into 2nd, could forget 3rd until it had warmed up a lot.
 
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