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Re: fastest in reverse bug-i in Fresno

To: "Spridgets List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: fastest in reverse bug-i in Fresno
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:10:40 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
Toby said:

>wasnt it the early 2 stroke v4 saabs that had no reverse. You had to stop
>the engine, turn the key the other way, and it would start in reverse. How
>cool is that.

I don't remember doing that when my father had such a car as his daily
driver in the early 'seventies.  His was the first model year that didn't
require oil to be mixed in with the gasoline.

No LBC, but that car had an unusual sort of transmission that somehow
managed to store momentum very efficiently so that the engine could run at
lower RPMs under certain conditions, a sort of rudimentary overdrive
concept.  Does anyone know what that was called, and the basicis of how it
worked?

Regards,

Charles
'74 Midget
'68 Sprite
Bloomfield, NJ
cdsorkin@cdsorkin.com
"How about we duck inside for a Hen?"




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