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It needs to be remembered that the automatic transmission until 1965/1966 was the old slim jim hydromatic. Prone to failure and inconsistent running unless rebuilt by B&M or some other race oriented shop. Didn't take much to burn one out and the 1-2 gear changes were really close together.

GM & their good auto's did not come out early on and so many ordered sticks instead. Remember that back then (1964) most people learned to drive on a stick not an automatic. Had a tough time convincing my father to get rid of the old '53 chev with stick and get the '57 Pontiac with the automatic. It cost him about $250 to get the trans rebuild in 1962 for that '57. OUCH. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]I did not tear it up. My older brother did. It had been his car.