I remember a time when I was much, much younger than I am now. Laying in the driveway, which was covered with a layer of ice and snow, 10 degrees below zero about 7 pm so it was dark already. There I was, changing out the transmission on a 1967 Pontiac GTO. Dressed in a snowmobile suit which work fine keeping you warm as long as you are on the back of the snowmobile. My intelligence in those days could not deduce it would still permit direct transference of cold from the ice/snow sheet I was laying on. 3 speed stick on the floor if I remember right but the cold might have damaged the one or two brain cells I had left by the time I decided that project HAD to be done that night.
Anyways, those were the days my Friends, thought they'd never end, or at least I sure thought that one would never end......
Nowadays, I can't even tell if a vehicle has a transmission, for all I know it could now be a "sonic vibration inducton transmogrifier" that produces the forward motion?