[Karl Bebout]

Tin-Man, sure hope you have better luck with your "ain't chump change" Roush engine. I just cringe when I read of other's problems after spending HUGE money on their 511's. Some people are more sympathetic than I am. I think that if you spend HUGE money on something, it should be flawless. I don't buy the thought that "gee, its man made and subject to problems". I have to think that the spending of the HUGE dollars is to preclude having such problems. As was said, hopefully, Roush has cured their problems. They sure as hell should have, for what you paid.

Anyway, off my soapbox, I've had an automatic in my Cobra for the 12 years I've owned it, and and have never regreted it. I have no doubt that a standard shift would probably be more fun to drive, but for ease of driving, consistentcy, and outright going A to B, my At has been great. I've had a Hughes TH 400 for seven years and just recently changed to a Hughes manual 4L80e that should be much nicer on our 90MPH cruises up throught the mountains. Its your car, your money, make it the way your want and damn the torpedoes.