Re: [Amc-list] 232 with standard trannie

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Which is pretty good considering the last factory 232 was 1979.
My only new car is/was my 74 Gremlin with 232 and 3-on-the-floor.

Ken 


Quoting Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> That should read the early 232 came out before 5 speeds. So far I have seen 2
> Spirits with 232/5 speed (both are '82 like mine)
> 
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> Must have been a Chevy guy telling you that! Just like all other US cars,
> there weren't as many manual trans models sold as autos from about the mid
> 60s on. Prior to about 66 the three speed manual was dominant over the auto.
> 232s got every type of transmission AMC ever offered behind it. Never got a
> five speed, as the 232 was dropped before AMC offered five speed manuals, but
> did get the SR4 four speed. Last 232 was made in 1979, 1978 was the first
> year for the SR4 four speed option. You can stick a T-5 behind one, or
> anything that a 258 or 4.0L has been bolted to. 
>  
> I can only thing of one engine ever used in an AMC that you couldn't get a
> manual transmission with. That was the 55-56 Packard V-8 used in the big Nash
> and Hudson models. They were all equipped with Packard Ultramatic auto trans,
> no manual option. 
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