Re: Manual versus Automatic (ULTRAmatic), post-war

Posted by acolds On 2015/6/11 14:32:08

The old cars with manual transmissions were designed to do the minimum amount of gear changing. High gear pulling from slow speed meant back then the car had a lot of power. Old slow turning high torque at low rpm engines with overdrive in town need very few gear changes 2nd gear and second gear overdrive are great. The over drive cars came with even lower axle ratios. Great fun to drive with overdrive.