Re: Shifting in a 28

Posted by Tim Cole On 2012/6/22 21:02:04

I believe I said that.

As soon as the car gets moving you can shift into second gear. You have to learn by shifting early. As you get more experienced you can move the speed up.

One time I was at Charlie Clancy's place and he was getting his car into high range by 15 mph. And that was a 37 Super Eight. That's the way he drove the car by habit.

In the speedster second is good for 45-50 mph without pushing it, but around town you can still put the car into second, and third at fairly low speed. The torque curve is virtually flat. But it takes practice. Can you imagine leaving the toll booths on the Garden State Parkway, running the car up to 50 in second gear and then not being able to shift?

At one time George bolted a second transmission onto the back of one of his cars for overdrive. I never heard it but George told me it was really awesome having the gears screaming at over 75 mph.