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

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me there was something knicknamed a 'clutch-flyte' that drag racers
used in the 60s that had a clutch instead of the torque converter. Wonder how
they kept 1st gear applied while the pedal was pressed. Or did they? Maybe there
was a slight delay after pedal release while the front pump pressurized the
system before  the car actually moved. Think there was a turbo350\400 version too.

Ken


Quoting Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> " 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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