- 1. auto-stick (score: 1)
- Author: "cfchrist" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:23:58 -0000
- yeah what a great idea....NOT! saab called this wonder a sachs-o-matic ! 2 stroke with a vaccume operated clutch...joy! i dont think it was too popular since i have not met anyone who ever(would admi
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00531.html (7,046 bytes)
- 2. Re: auto-stick (score: 1)
- Author: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:33:52 -0700
- Anyone every hear of a "Manumatic clutch"? It's listed under Gearbox and ancillaries in the prefix codes. Gerard G G Gerard Chateauvieux E A R R pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com A A R G Pixelsmith on Dut
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00536.html (7,907 bytes)
- 3. Re: auto-stick (score: 1)
- Author: HFC <froggi@cdsnet.net>
- Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:44:01 -0700
- They weren't all that uncommon years back. VW also had what they called their "stick shift automatic." Porsche called theirs "Sport-O-Matic". Richie Genther (drove for Porsche a number of years) sat
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00543.html (8,039 bytes)
- 4. Re: auto-stick (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:57:21 EDT
- << "Manumatic clutch" >> No, Gerard, but another one is the old Buick Fluid drive from the 50's--we used to call them "Slushboxes". Back in those days, with the weightier cars it seemed that when you
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00555.html (7,377 bytes)
- 5. Re: auto-stick (score: 1)
- Author: Paul A Asgeirsson <pasgeirsson@juno.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 10:21:15 EDT
- The Buick one was "Dynaflow." Really was anything but! This was their answer to the GM Hydra-Matic that had neck snapping shifts between gears. I think Hydra-matic came out in the 1939 Oldsmobiles fi
- /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00564.html (8,576 bytes)
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