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Re: Gyromatic Transmissions

To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, Land-speed group <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Gyromatic Transmissions
From: Kris Wright <kw@cimsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 15:51:49 -0600
And I thought my husband was innovative, don't think
he's tried this.  That's why I love this list.  Where there's
a will, there's a way and all that stuff.
Kris Wright

Dick J wrote:

> GEEESH - sometimes it scares me how much all us
> guys are alike.  In 1958 I painted scallops on my
> 49 Chev with my mom's electrolux attachment!
> Actually, the whole paint job was done with that
> vacuum cleaner.
>
> Unreal!
>
> Dick J
>
> --- Jim Dincau <jdincau@qnet.com> wrote:
> > And as I remember if you got ahead of the OD
> > and pushed the gas too soon it
> > would go back into direct with a VERY LOUD
> > CLUNK!
> > Jim in Palmdale, who painted scallops on his 52
> > Dodge with a vacuum cleaner
> > spray gun (crude very crude).
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
> > To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>;
> > <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:43 AM
> > Subject: Re: Gyromatic Transmissions
> >
> >
> > > Yeah Dick, I remember as a kid in the early
> > '50s, Chrysler Corp had
> > > their whole lineup on this transmission setup
> > for a few years, even
> > > their '51-'52 or later Chrysler Hemis.  I
> > drove a couple cars with it
> > > then, and it worked fine, just kind of pokey
> > about the low to high
> > > shift, then into the OD, since you took your
> > foot off the gas each time.
> > > Bill
> > >
> >
>
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