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<p>[QUOTE="Deezl Smoke, post: 11616110, member: 60720"]I would show up just for the trip down memory lane. '62 KW cabover, 280 cummins, 5x4, and get this, "center point steering". No AC, Basically no windshield defroster. How many remember "shutters" in front of their radiator? Air ride suspension was only in the dreamers eyes that wrote the brochures for new trucks. </p><p><br /></p><p> AMTs or whatever you want to call'm, are what's new. Just like power steering. Just like AC. Just like air ride suspension and a cab quiet enough to hear the stereo was when they hit the market in mass. </p><p><br /></p><p> How many of you anti-AMT people want to go back to no power steering, no AC, or run spring suspension? Anyone? Every one of those options and more had their own difficulties at first. Back in those days, when the AC compressor clicked on, you had to drop a gear when pulling a hill. How bout anti-lock brakes? Any one want to drive in today's traffic without it? </p><p><br /></p><p> Manual trans drivers are a dying breed, and as such leave behind a dying market. They're your kids (bastar-ds that they may be) that are leaving the manuals lay in the bone yards. They're the same kids that you better hope use modern technology to take care of you when you're dying of lung cancer from following that 1693 with garden hose injectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Deezl Smoke, post: 11616110, member: 60720"]I would show up just for the trip down memory lane. '62 KW cabover, 280 cummins, 5x4, and get this, "center point steering". No AC, Basically no windshield defroster. How many remember "shutters" in front of their radiator? Air ride suspension was only in the dreamers eyes that wrote the brochures for new trucks. AMTs or whatever you want to call'm, are what's new. Just like power steering. Just like AC. Just like air ride suspension and a cab quiet enough to hear the stereo was when they hit the market in mass. How many of you anti-AMT people want to go back to no power steering, no AC, or run spring suspension? Anyone? Every one of those options and more had their own difficulties at first. Back in those days, when the AC compressor clicked on, you had to drop a gear when pulling a hill. How bout anti-lock brakes? Any one want to drive in today's traffic without it? Manual trans drivers are a dying breed, and as such leave behind a dying market. They're your kids (bastar-ds that they may be) that are leaving the manuals lay in the bone yards. They're the same kids that you better hope use modern technology to take care of you when you're dying of lung cancer from following that 1693 with garden hose injectors.[/QUOTE]
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