It was called "Freewheeling"
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From Charles Sorkin <cdsorkin at ix.netcom.com>
To: Spridgets List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: fastest in reverse bug-i in Fresno
>Toby said:
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>>wasnt it the early 2 stroke v4 saabs that had no reverse. You had to stop
>>the engine, turn the key the other way, and it would start in reverse. How
>>cool is that.
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>I don't remember doing that when my father had such a car as his daily
>driver in the early 'seventies. His was the first model year that didn't
>require oil to be mixed in with the gasoline.
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>No LBC, but that car had an unusual sort of transmission that somehow
>managed to store momentum very efficiently so that the engine could run at
>lower RPMs under certain conditions, a sort of rudimentary overdrive
>concept. Does anyone know what that was called, and the basicis of how it
>worked?
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>Regards,
>
>Charles
>'74 Midget
>'68 Sprite
>Bloomfield, NJ
>cdsorkin@cdsorkin.com
>"How about we duck inside for a Hen?"
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