[Fot] Racing a Triumph TRANSMISSIONS

[Doug Mitchell]

ISTR that some of Jim Hall's Chaparals had 2 speed powerglide transmissions.

One of the DTSC members has recently converted a TR4 to automatic. Not a race car, but...

Cheers,

Doug
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Doug Mitchell
dmitchel at sbcglobal.net

BillDentin at aol.com wrote:

>Amici...
>
>With all of this talk about transmissions, and my serious hip/knee 
>arthritis issues, what would really interest me is an automatic.  Anyone know of any 
>options open to me there?  I tend to be a Purist, so hopefully it should 
>fit in the original TR3 tranny case.
>
>Bill (Damdinger)
>
>PS  Actually, I don't know about over here, but back in the day over in 
>Europe, they did run some automatic transmissions in race cars.  The way I 
>understand it, David Hobbs family built automatic transmissions.  I am not sure 
>what they went into, but I am going to guess Jaguar as the Tornado Cars 
>Works racing logs we have talk about racing against the 'Hobbs Jag'.
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