If you think the 99 is bad, you really are lucky you didn't find out how shitty that old Apache would have been. Cars are about ten times as reliable these days with about 1/4 of the maintenance.
Yeah If I can get the guy to trade I figured i could save up and do a swap. Id rather have an auto for traffic anyway. I could just put a "slap" shifter in it. A 4BT cummins swap would be cool.