On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:30:29 -0500 (EST) Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca> wrote: > No? What about the three-on-the-tree manual transmission shifter? > Plenty of those were shipped by Ford, GM, and Chrysler from the > fifties through the seventies. Three-on-the-tree was the standard for many years. It only disappeared when automatic transmissions became common. Kevin