On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Dan Barrett wrote:

> It's just personal preference -- driving an automatic makes me feel like I'm
> driving a golf cart.
> Probably not a good enough reason to spend a thousand bucks and a bunch of
> free time on swapping out the tranny.

The classic suggestion I've seen is to sell it and buy the van you want,
instead of going to all the effort to try to convert the one you have. :)

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