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Three on the Tree.... Remember?
How many people here are old enough to have driven a three-speed manual transmission with the shifter on the steering column? Back in the 60s, that was the default cheap manual transmission for American cars -- you paid extra for four speeds, if it was available. God, I hated it; the shifting points were all wrong. Always felt like my revs were too high, or not high enough. I'd learned to drive on a VW bug, and even that had four speeds. And then the Japanese came in with four speeds on all their cheap cars. So thank God, I haven't driven a three-on-the-tree since my sister's '70 Ford Maverick.
Anybody out there still driving a car with a transmission like that?
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