Re: [AMC-List] Was E-Stick, Now Drivers

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM" <Francis.Swygert3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" 
" Almost all manufacturers had some sort of semi-auto trans where you only
" had to use the clutch to come to a complete stop and to start. Once GM
" introduced the Hydramatic in the late 30s (I seem to recall 38?) they

that sounds about right.

" had to! GM didn't start selling Hydros to others until 1950. Then Nash
" was the first to make a deal, trading use of their "Weather Eye"
" filtration system for rights to buy the Hydro. A year or two later GM
" was selling Hydros to others as well. 

and putting them in unexpected places, like the m135 korean-war army
trucks, behind the 302-inch six - the other 'jimmy' beloved of early
hot rodders.  how about a deuce-and-a-half with a wayne head and
fenton headers?  but i've always heard the gmcs were crap compared to
the reo-studebaker-kaiser-amgeneral m35/m44; they actually lost the
army drive-off but were made anyway because of korea.

not long after that the factory was totally destroyed in a fire, and
then the race was on...  everyone rushed to develop their own auto.
the iron warner / fmx was probably the last of the 1st-gen, surviving
until '80 in fords.
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