it was the trade off, takes an ungodly amount of HP to turn the old PG's, but you don't have to shift. they have 10 more HP than the stick 235's for '53 ( 115 Hp stick, 125 HP glide' ) but they take so much more hp to turn them, the extra power didn't make a diffrence. not to mention the stick cars had steeper gears, 4.10's where as the glide' cars had 3.55's. I like my PG cause it's somewhat rare, but it is slow, with a top speed of 60 or so.