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Re: [Spits] 1500 shift stick

To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Spits] 1500 shift stick
From: "John Innis" <jdinnis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:14:25 -0600
Reverse on the single Rail is UP Right.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Joe Curry <spitlist@cox.net> wrote:
> I have to admit that I have never owned a Spit with a single rail gearbox
> but I thought that the down right for reverse is correct.  I know that a
> 3-rail box has it up and left and I thought that it was just the opposite.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of William McLeod
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:51 PM
> To: Daniel Parrott; spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spits] 1500 shift stick
>
> I never thought about it when I put it on, but the knob was just
> loosely screwed on the stick.  The knob may be from something else
> entirely!  With that in mind, any further comments?  Thanks, Bill
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Daniel Parrott wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing that it's not from a Spit 1500.  My tranny goes up and
>> to the
>> right to get into reverse.  But I do have an overdrive.
>>
>> Dan Parrott
>> 1980 Triumph Spitfire "PJ"  (Look at the cover at the latest issue of
>> "Spitfire and GT6!)
>> 1973 GT6/ 1978 Spitfire "Spit-Six"  (under restoration)
>> Savannah, Ga
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net
>> [mailto:spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of William McLeod
>> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 4:37 PM
>> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
>> Subject: [Spits] 1500 shift stick
>>
>> I have a shift stick up on ebay ( item number 110312544000 ) which I
>> have identified as coming from a post 1975 Midget or Spitfire.  There
>> is a viewer out there who is insistent that I have mis-identified it.
>> If some of you experts out there could look at the auction and send
>> along a question (really an answer) to tell me what I have up, I would
>> really appreciate it!  I don't need to be selling the wrong stuff!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Bill
>> Slightly Classics
>> Tucson, AZ
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