When I put the dog-leg 5-speed into my 1200, I had to get a driveshaft from an automatic tranny.
The drive shaft splines on the dog-leg 5-speed is the same as an automatic tranny if you can find one. Unlike most driveshafts that have replacable U-joints and therefore the front yoke
is replacable, the 1200 U-joints are not replacable, they are welded. The dog-leg 5-speed is a heavy duty trans and produces more friction and uses more of your horsepower that the
regular 5-speed or 4-speed, although the most think the tranny is worth it. You get nothing for free, you have to trade HP for better reliability. I think the 4-speed was very reliable. I
put over 200,000 miles on mine and never had any problems. I still have the 4-speed if anyone needs it. I also have a 4-speed with fewer miles on it.

I only found this club a week ago. Does anyone live close to Tennessee in this club. I see a lot of members from Australia and New Zealand, cool. I have a 73 coupe but it needs a lot of body
work. I am thinking of selling it. It has all new suspension parts. The engine is a 65 HP A14 from a later 210 and the tranny is the HD 1977 model (the one everyone wants). It is just too much
for me anymore to do the body. It was wrecked in the left front. After having this car for eight years, I finally found a rusted fender but I haven't the tools to do a correct restoration
anymore so I haven't put the fender on yet. The car is sitting now. I haven't driven it fot over a year now. I love the 1200. I think it it the greatest car ever for the money. I had a 1965
Pontiac GTO, 389, tri-power, four-speed, for eight years. I though nothing about getting out of the GTO and getting into the 1200. It was respectable in every way. And if I had a flat I could
grab the fender and lift that corner onto a rock or something to jack it up. Anyone interested give me a reply. I got my first 1200 new in 1972. A couple of years later, a friend called it
Mario, commenting on how it handled. In 1981, I built a little super charged motor for it and another friend's 11 year old son called it Mareo Speedwagon and the name stuck. I had that car
until 1989. It had over 300,000 miles on it when I lost it in a three year divorce and it went to the shredder with a two thousand dollar motor in it before I could save it. I got this coupe
in 1991.

Hello, I just found your club and I had to join. I had a 1200 sedan for over 300K and it never failed me. I failed it quite often but it always came through. After owning it for eight years,
I built the motor and turbocharged it. Paeco in Birmingham, AL has valve trains, pistons, rods and cranks that are unsurpassed but a but costly. I put 90K miles on that motor without a mishap
and it was at 8.5 - 9000 rpms all the time. This was a 1972 A12 motor. After that motor I installed a normally aspirated 8000 rpm A14 that was hard to beat. That car lasted until 1989. As for
the A15 motor, is cannot get the rpm of the A14 or the A12 motors. I now have a 1200 coupe and I installed a 65 HP A14 with the 1977 heavy duty Tranny. The first gear is to you and back like
on the old three speeds. It is an excellent tranny but it does use a bit more horsepower from the enging than the standard tranny. The drive shaft end is the same as larger Datsuns and the
1200 automatic is the same also. I can cruise at 70 and still get over 40 MPG with it. There and cars that get better gas milage, there are cars that handle better, and there are cars that
out perform the 1200 but there are NO CARS that can do all three better than the little B110.
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