Actually, I do remember driving some old Ford truck on the campus of my college years ago. The truck was about 40 years old and the letters on the front had been switched so it read "DORF" instead of FORD. Hence, it was called "The DORF". I guess that piece of information goes into the "who cares" file.....

Anyway, we would regularly shift gears without using the clutch and it wasn't that hard to do.