I got to drive a bad bellybutton manual one time up in Virginia. It was a Roadrunner (older model) and had a Hurst shifter with a pistol grip handle.
That car was fast, but I never drove it fast. The owner was a coal miner, and let me drive it when he got too drunk to drive one time. I drove it slow, because we ran outta gas and had to nurse it home on a cupfull of gas poured in the carb. We made it, about 5 miles.
Les