[Roadsters] Slicing up a transmission Tunnel - Reasons?

[Gordon Glasgow]

Was it sliced up enough to pull the trans without pulling the engine? I
heard about that on a race car once. They made the tunnel removable so they
could pull the trans out through the interior.

Gordon Glasgow

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Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:07 PM
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Subject: [Roadsters] Slicing up a transmission Tunnel - Reasons?

Alvin,
   
  Thanks for posting the pictures from the Shasta Meet this year. 107
degrees in California for the meet. And to think, It was cooler in Texas at
only 101 degrees.
   
  Checked out a 64 Fairlady 3-seater earlier today. Original running engine
with its original 64 non-synchro transmission. Yet for some weird reason the
transmission tunnel had been completely sliced open on both sides and on top
of the tunnel by the shifter. 
   
  I can't understand why the transmission tunnel was hacked?
   
  Now the early spl310 transmission actually has a transfluid dipstick on
the top of the transmission. If you are looking from the underside of a
spl310, you won't find a plug-hole for filling the transmission. Could a
previous owner have actually sliced the entire trans tunnel open, just to
fill the transmssion?
   
  Any ideas why someong would destroy the trans tunnel, yet retain the stock
engine/trans?
   
  Dan Zubkoff
  Houston, TX