Ken
Veteran Member
In the mid-50's just out of the service and needing a car. bought from Chev. dealer a 1949 trade-in Plymouth 4-door sedan only needed a grill that had been hit and broken 10 bucks at the scrap yard and fixed the grill.You know you are old when:
You call a manual transmission a “standard” transmission.
Drove everywhere little problems such as going uphill and turning to the right lights would go out. small shift of steering returned maybe for months then would happen again. Standard transmission and around midnight. South lower farm field in Arkansas. there was no town or lights to see anything. The gears broke the housing and parts on the ground. a farmer stopped and looked and said there was a scrap yard up the road and usually someone was there so got a ride to this location. Nightwatchman answered a door knock and upon telling him the need said common problem and he had one for sale. 5 Bucks gave him the money and he took me back the the Plymouth kept his car lights on the area of work. had a few wrenches removed the bolts disconnected the shift levers and rear spline shaft. installed the replacement and rebolted connected the removed shafts; this transmission was still in the vehicle when sold.
after several trips to lower Texas.
Now try this in today's vehicles.