mustangandy
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- 1971 Cobra Jet 429 Ram Air C6 auto 3.50 traction loc
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Don't forget that you can always drive an automatic like a manual, just without the clutch ie start in 1st, move to 2nd then drive as/when you want too. Same with downshifting.My ordinary car is not a Volks, it's this.. lollerz V code pweter metalYou pointed it out: a 4-speed is difficult to find, automatic you have more choice. I wanted a 4 speed and found one - with the circumstances that it was soon a project. I don't regret because I always wanted to have one. But from time to time, as I drove it before taking all apart I felt an automatic would be perhaps less stressful to drive sometime. With a 4-speed and a healthy motor it is difficult to cruise, with a idle at ca. 1.000 rpm (351C 4V) the car wanted always to be driven. You are in a permanent race modusThat's the charm on it - and don't forget the pedal forces and pedal ways which are needed to shift - it is not as on your everyday Volkswagen from 2015...
I think an automatic will be the better cruiser and the 4-speed the better racer. But you can do also both with them important to say. A 4-speed will be hanging more directly on the rear than an automatic which will react a bit more softer at the end.
It all depends on how your drivestyle is...
Driving automatic is not that difficult to learn. If you can drive with a hand-shifted car you can also drive an automatic in general.
In case of doubt better buy the better car - the original and the untouched the better - if that car has an automatic or a 4-speed is then secondary...
One other thing with importing cars directly from the USA, make sure that it is possible to actually register the car in France. I've been told recently that France, being France, is almost impossible to get it done this way, that's to say if a car has only been registered in the USA and not in Europe. The guy I was speaking to does some assistance with this and he picks up imported cars from French docks, takes them to UK for them to be registered there and then they get re-imported back into France. Seems it's much easier to get them registered that way. However this is what I was told so have no way of verifying if this is actually the case. Certainly worth checking out though just to be sure, others on here will have more info than me.
