Originally Posted by
seypat
I was running with a lady on Saturday. I'm 60 and she's 57 years old. An old pickup came past us. I asked her if she'd ever driven a 3 on the tree. She said she'd never seen one. I found that a little odd.
Not surprising at all to me. The last car I owned with a three speed manual transmission (on the tree) was a '64 Dodge Dart. Even my cheap as dirt '76 Plymouth Volare came with a 4 speed manual and a floor mounted Hurst shifter. I did drive a '53 Studebaker pickup at work in the early '80s that may have had a three on the tree shifter. Every other manual transmission car I ever owned or drove since 1963 was a 4 or 5 speed with a floor shifter. My sister/brother-in-law owned 50's and early 60's Saabs that had 4 on the tree shifters (or maybe the shifter came out of the dashboard like the Renault 2CV, it was a long time ago.)