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I owned a 77 for awhile with a 350 and 4 speed. I'm not certain but I think it may have been a close ratio trans. The lasting impressions I have of it are
1) Take off the T tops and store them behind the seats and you have basically no room for anything.
2) You can talk about lack of power but they had plenty of torque. 1st and 3rd gear seemed almost unnecessary and driving around town it felt expedient to start in 2nd and skip third and go straight to 4th as a normal shift progression. Of course, that meant you were spinning around 3500 at highway speeds which was not a comfortable cruising speed. I found myself dropping back to around 3000 rpms but that meant the mom's in minivans were passing me constantly.
3) People who didn't know any better thought the car was cool
I sold mine about after about a year and I know I didn't put more than a thousand miles on it. It just wasn't that fun to drive. Maybe with an Auto Trans it would be better.
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