[mgarblik]

Mecum is in the business of selling cars and maximizing profits, period. They know who their buyers are, their ages, what they have been told for decades, and what rhetoric sells the cars. For 90% of the buyers, the only thing the transmission does is move the car in reverse out of an enclosed trailer. Then shift into 1st to crawl from the trailer parking to the show field. Repeat process until board out of your mind or the prospect for a killing at another auction comes around. For everyone else, choose the transmission that best suits your needs. Muscle cars were produced in large numbers with MANUAL and AUTOMATICS for a reason. Personally, if I am watching a Mecum Auction, I just mute the audio. It's like listening into a middle school shop class circa 1973.

[geeteeohguy]

Originally Posted by mgarblik

Mecum is in the business of selling cars and maximizing profits, period. They know who their buyers are, their ages, what they have been told for decades, and what rhetoric sells the cars. For 90% of the buyers, the only thing the transmission does is move the car in reverse out of an enclosed trailer. Then shift into 1st to crawl from the trailer parking to the show field. Repeat process until board out of your mind or the prospect for a killing at another auction comes around. For everyone else, choose the transmission that best suits your needs. Muscle cars were produced in large numbers with MANUAL and AUTOMATICS for a reason. Personally, if I am watching a Mecum Auction, I just mute the audio. It's like listening into a middle school shop class circa 1973.

THIS^^^.
I prefer a 4 speed in a classic musclecar. That said, I've run the original TH400 in my '67 GTO ragtop for the past 39 years and 130,000 miles. The car is a great cruiser, and the TH400 allows me to pull 2.56 rear gears. Can't really do that with a Muncie 4 speed. I have owned a bunch of first gen GTO's...the stick cars never had their born with engines, the auto cars always did. And were a lot less beat up (ten year old used cars at the time). I passed up MANY 2 speed auto GTO's looking for a convertible, and settled on the TH400 '67 because it was a performer equal to or better than a 4 speed. Unlike the St300, which killed performance in the GTO's I had with it. To each his own, there are benefits to both. The auction guys get none of my attention as they know less about these cars than most of us here.