Who would want to live without the sqeaky clutch cable and shuddery clutch from when I drove it in to my mates super arsehole of an underground car park at his flat in Drumoyne when I used to go there for weekends chasing hotter chicks than could be found in my home town of 800!

Who would want to miss the fun of not quite shifting out of 1st gear properly and thinking its in neutral only to get that awesome TWANG noise through the tail shaft as it takes its self out of gear!

Who would want to miss the absolute excitement of poping the clutch going for the holeshot at the lights only to realise the bastard is stuck in 1st and reverse!

Or the time the piece of plastic that links the 3rd and 4th linkages together breaks and strands me in the middle of Cambletown with only 1st and 2nd gears...... 400km away from home.

Or the fact they will not go into 2nd gear ever at all when cold.

Having said all that I have never blown one up but have a mate who babied his old HZ and still managed to lunch an Aussie 4 speed every 30000km or so.

Feel free to add any other touching tales of possibly one of the least user friendly manual gearboxs known to man.