First off you would have to find someone that stil can drive a standard transmission, Then you threw in that extinked word WORK . and let's face it prices are out of control. And as far as getting a new truck with a standard transmission #1 the reason for the lack of them by the MFG. is emission control due to big brother . There are several cab and chassis setting on a dealers lot and are what you may can a WORK truck but the sticker price is 52-56000 plus what ever bed you want to install. and all are SLUSH BOXES . As far as i am concerned they have only made two automatic transmissions , The ones that are already out and the ones that are going out . I have tried the slush boxes in a pick up WORK truck and that did not go well at all. Years back when i was one of four snow removal contractors in the pin head on the map i bought a new 78 Found on the road DEAD F 250 Snow patrol . The night i bought that truck it never made it home from the dealer and had to be towed back , It was on a Thursday evening and they worked on that truck all night trying to get it to run . I needed it due to the fact that we had a major snow storm going on . At 4:00 A M i needed to be plowing and they had to give me another truck to get started . At noon i was caught up and went back to get MY NEW truck , the service manage had been up since six am the day before along with the one parts guy and the one mechanic and they all said that my truck was done . Told the service manage to get in and he and i would take it for a TEST drive . He and i pulled out of the lot and drove down the hill and drove about a mile and a half and turned around to go back . it made it a half mile and we had to get a wrecked to drag it back . After two more days they got it where it would run and the next storm hit . I started to plow at 3 a m and by 6;30 i limped it to the dealers ft. door with the transmission out . two days later i got it back and the next storm hit and again started at 3 am and by 9 in the morning i limped it back with the transmission smoked again . and the next storm it ate another one and another one . Then they put a whole new transmission in it and it lasted till the next snow storm. and it was fried . I gave up on the dealer and pulled it myself and dug into it . They had cheapened up the transmission somuch that there was noway it would hold up under nay use . i was lucky that i had some OLD C-6 parts from back in the drag racing days and i removed the four dic ft. drum and installed a six dic ft drum and a six disc intermediate drum did away with all the Bellvieu washers and added six disc in the rear upped the loc up pressures stiffened up the accumulator spring and it then lasted for five more years but it still failed . My other truck was a four gear and yep it was a pain and slow in rev. but it never once let me down in 12 years . There was 279and change on that truck and ran like a top up till the day a highschool kid racing his buddy lot it on a curve and slid sideways into me head on i was in the wrong place at the wrong time and so was he as he did not make it . I see all the slush boxes that give up the ghost down the street from me at the local hotrod shop for pick ups and even the NEW as my one old friend trys to tell me the new BULLET PROF DODGE transmissions as i have seen five of them down there being reworked as DODGE will not stand behind them if you tweak your GOAT .
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