Long ago I looked into buying an old 1971 AMC CJ5. The appearance and price was good so I inquired and the owner let me take a little test drive. The little 4 or 6cyl engine pulled well, everything worked (what little there was to work) but the drawback was the trans. The shifter was a 4 speed H pattern. The throw was very long (clean out the house) but was hard to tell what gear you were in unless moving. 1st and 3rd, 2nd and 4th were like an inch apart.
I contacted a local trans shop that said AMC used about 8 different manufacturers of trans, Peugeot being the main provider and that nothing would cure the problem other than replacing it with something else.
I felt this was something I couldn't get use to and didn't want to rebuild the thing so I declined on buying.
Unfortunately almost nothing built is 100% American.
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