My second car after high school (class of '67) was a '66 Barracuda Formula S, 4 spd. (first was a 64 Belvedere 426S, auto) This was in Vermont.

The S came to me at around 23k miles, I had no history on it. It had gear oil in the trans, and on any cold morning during the winter, the car would start, but letting the clutch out would stall the car, at high idle on the choke. Shifting was nearly impossible.

I would rev it up, let the clutch out, and have to spend about 5 minutes sitting in a 20 below car before it would idle on its own, clutch out.

This didn't last too long, I had seen a service bulletin about this, and Chrysler's answer was ATF. As soon as I could, I drained and swapped the gear lube for atf.

After that, my main complaint with the car was the fast manual steering, on Vermont's pot holed roads the kick back in the steering was a bear.

Didn't keep that car long, back then there was always something interesting coming in trade at 31 63436.