mmissile
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My mother's 383 4-speed wagon. Picture from 1964.It's just harder to imagine a house-wife, mother-of-four driving a four-gear to get to the the Winn Dixie, church and baseball practice.
My mother's 383 4-speed wagon. Picture from 1964.It's just harder to imagine a house-wife, mother-of-four driving a four-gear to get to the the Winn Dixie, church and baseball practice.
When I was in the Dominican Republic a few years ago, almost everything was manual transmission. Even the transport busses and large Toyota vans. The driver said it was a "mechanical transmission", they didn't know the word "manual" for that application.Very true about the manuals. In the early 2000’s I remember sending a jeep Cherokee to Poland, I use to fly over and spend a week or so trying to meet new contacts. One of the funniest things I remember on that trip was trying to explain to a guy that wanted to buy it( I dont speak Polish) how to drive an automatic vehicle, he literally had never seen one and didn’t understand how it worked. How things have changed.
Speaking of ‘71-‘74 B body wagons… in my junkyard picking days I got a console mounted tape recorder out of a ‘72 Coronet wagon, and the “Ralley” instrument cluster with the 150 MPH speedo, but no tach, out of another loaded Crestwood wagon. Both had the 360 in them.
No 73/74 360 Chargers??But… 360s were not available to B bodies up to 74. Until that, just C bodies got them. Maybe Changed along its lifes?
71 for C bodies, 72 for trucks and 74 for A, B, E.Applies the same for A and E bodies ( just Sport/Duster on A )
74 was the first year 360 was offered on a diff body than C