My first car was a 1959 Opel Rekord that my mother gave me in 1967 when she bought a new 1968 Ford Falcon. We brought the car with us from Germany in 1961. It had an electropneumatic clutch there was no clutch pedal, the clutch engaged when you pulled the gear shift lever, you could hear the pneumatics hissing and it was in neutral. It took about a second to engage completely once you let go of the gear shift lever. I put in an oversized air filter and replaced the muffler with a Thrush Cherry bomb glass pack.