THERE ARE AT LEAST A COUPLE OF THINGS we’d rather have been doing than slogging through a field on a drizzly Saturday morning. But we were on a mission to find a clutch pedal and linkage setup needed to perform an automatic-to-manual transmission swap on a ’68 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Faithful readers of will recall that, a while back, we installed a big-block engine and TH400 transmission in our ’68 Bel Air. The intent was to mimic #221). After the story appeared, however, more than one person chastised us for not installing a four-speed, the way that the majority of the Motion “Street Racer Specials” were constructed, and we soon found ourselves considering the prospect.
