Keith Whaley wrote:
Graywolf wrote:
You, know what, you are very authoritive about everything. And mostly you do not know what you are talking about. I had made the decision not to reply to any of your posts in the past. I forgot. I will not do so in the future. Kids!
For others who may be interested, the AR Guilietta Super Spyder (or Spider, it means roadster in any case) was the most highly tuned of the roadsters, 1300cc, 135hp, dual webers, ('56/'57 here in the US) basically the racing version. It had a 5 speed german made DB gearbox and every one I ever drove (about 5 of them, none of them new when I drove them) had a bulky shift into second gear, up or down, hence my comment.
graywolf
Yeah. It seems that was a "balky" synchro. Typical of that gearbox design, it seemed.
If you pressed it, it grudgingly went into second gear. Not without protest in some form or another...
Force it and it clashed. So, you pretended you had an ailing synchro, and treated it as such. Gentled into mesh...
Fabulous machine, for sure!
I had a beloved (don't ask me why!) Simca Aronde. 5 (or 6?) on the stalk, and it "went like stink," as we used to say...
That little engine would wind and wind! Just like the 1600cc Beemer or Alfa. Something about those 1.6 litre DOHC engines of that era. They just sang... Greatest sound in the world!
Hmmm, let me see.... Merlin on a high speed low pass; big v-twin going uphill, DKW supercharged two stroke triple at any time. No, I can think of quite a few infernal combustion sounds that beat it hollow. 8-)
Well, other than a Ferrari 12 being tuned... Whrooooom, Whrooom! Gives you chills, it does!
Then there was my Singer saloon... <big grin...>
keith
