Welcome. When you say original tranny, do you mean automatic or standard? 3-speed or 4-speed?
You can pick up a used manual transmission fairly cheap if you keep an eye out. A lot of those get discarded for automatics in the resto-mod community.
1953 Chevrolet 3600 Fried Green T'mater (Vern) In the Stovebolt Gallery Caution: Political Statement Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted.
