Graham Stretch wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I guess it would have pretty much the same effect as when I did an almost
> perfect double declutched down shift in my Herald, Fourth to Second at about
> 70 MPH, the rev counter hit the stop things got loud then quiet. When I
> rolled to a stop the engine was still going but I had no drive. Got towed
> home and took the box out and found the clutch embedded on the inside of the
> bell housing! Hence the reason I said almost perfect, it would have been
> perfect if it had been a tadge slower and not blown things up!
When I was much, much younger and attending the unofficial drag races
set up on the air base at which my father was stationed, I remember one
enlisted man finishing a run in his fairly new Olds 442, then walking
over to some acquaintance, who asked him, "why the 442? Wasn't the
Corvette faster?" "Yep," he said, "but I hit an expressway downramp at
120 and thought I was going a bit too fast and, without thinking, went
from 4th to 2nd... sort of welded up the whole engine, and the dealer
gave me a good trade on the Olds."
Cheers.
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Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
[mailto: mporter@zianet.com]
`70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly)
`71 GT6 Mk. III (organ donor)
`72 GT6 Mk. III (daily driver)
`64 TR4 (awaiting intensive care)
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