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Re: [Fot] Fwd: Brands Hatch (Addendum)

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Subject: Re: [Fot] Fwd: Brands Hatch (Addendum)
From: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:21:32 -0500
>My OD switch is in the top of my custom-made shift knob (came with 
>the car, no idea where to get another).
>
>Here's a couple of fun videos from that one.
>Grattan, Aug, 2004, decent dice with Jeff Snook in a TR-3 (skip the 
>first 2:30 to cut to the race start, most of the action is over by 
>the 20 minute mark): http://www.tonydrews.com/Videos/TonyGrattan08222004web.wmv
>
>Road America, May, 2007, nice dice with Rick Gurolnick in a white 
>open top 356 (Starting from the back of the pack - this one has a 
>last lap pass): http://www.tonydrews.com/Videos/TonyDrewsRA05202007full.wmv
>
>I was running worn Hoosier Vintage TD's at Grattan, so the car was 
>moving around a bit - more and more as the race went on.  I was 
>running Toyo Proxes at Road America - they're not faster, but less 
>prone to oversteer for me.
>
>- Tony D
>
>At 02:26 PM 8/1/2008, you wrote:
>>I learned shifting OD from Tony Drews.
>>He is doing very well with his OD.
>>
>>My knob is at the steering because I don't have to take the hands 
>>of the wheel
>>while shifting.
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <WEmery7451@aol.com>
>>To: <fot@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:48 PM
>>Subject: [Fot] Fwd: Brands Hatch (Addendum)
>>
>>
>> > For years, I used an overdrive.  It would quit working.  I would take it
>> > apart, find nothing wrong with it, put it back together, and it 
>> would start
>> > working again.
>> >
>> > I finally blew one of them up.
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>> > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:44:20 EDT
>> > Subject: Re: [Fot] Brands Hatch
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>> > << I am not running an overdrive gearbox currently, but there is a knob at
>>the
>> > steering wheel.>>
>> >
>> > I used a gear shift knob for years with a side sliding 
>> switch.  Some people
>> > said that it was a fan switch, and others said it was for shifting the two
>> > speed axles on the old trailer truck tractors.
>> >
>> > The internal parts finally wore and would come apart, and I could never
>>find
>> > another switch like this one.  I would disassemble the switch and put the
>> > parts back together, and even made a couple of parts for it.  Finally, I
>>gave u
>> > p
>> > using it and installed a switch on the gear shift (suggested by Ted
>>Shoemaker).
>> >
>> > I still use the original switch as a gear shifter knob.
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