My local Historic Car Club had a show and shine today and I've been working to get the van's interior done so I could take it. I also have a stock standard Valiant VG Safari wagon that was my Father-in-Law's and it's on club rego, so we wanted to take it too.

My Wife won't drive the Val, as it's only got drum brakes and she had a bad experience years ago in it in a panic stop, so I had to drive the Val and she drove the van (for the 1st time). She only drives auto's (yeah, I know....) so she was OK in the van (253/trimatic). It was so cool following her to the show listening to the vans exhaust note, then watching everyone's mind explode when they saw a woman driving it.

Where I'm going with this is that if it was a manual, we would have only been able to take 1 car, or she would have (probably not) had to drive the Val.
So the van's staying auto for the time being. Come to think of it, the 383 stroker I've got that I'm thinking of putting in the van is a turbo pattern block so maybe it'll get a turbo 400........