Me, I'll always take a stick over an automatic. I was raised in the bay area with nothing but hills on the surface streets and you better damn well know how to drive a stick in the bay area. If your vehicle rolls back 3" you're going to bump the car behind you. My commute vehicle was a 65 stick shift Chevy C 10 my 31 mile commute would take me 2 hours on the way home. Move 4 feet, clutch in and stop. move 3 feet, clutch in & stop for 30 miles. My current daily driver is a 2002 PT Cruiser with a stick 231,000 miles and still commuting 60 miles round trip to work & back but I now live in the central valley, hills are nonexistent and traffic is pretty much nonexistent a real cake walk for a commute.
For me a muscle car isn't a muscle car unless it has a stick. But that's just my opinion. My 62 Catalina is a 4 SPD and a blast to drive I wouldn't give my stick up for anything.
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