ISTR that some of Jim Hall's Chaparals had 2 speed powerglide transmissions.
One of the DTSC members has recently converted a TR4 to automatic. Not a race
car, but...
Cheers,
Doug
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Doug Mitchell
dmitchel@sbcglobal.net
BillDentin@aol.com wrote:
>Amici...
>
>With all of this talk about transmissions, and my serious hip/knee
>arthritis issues, what would really interest me is an automatic. Anyone know
>of any
>options open to me there? I tend to be a Purist, so hopefully it should
>fit in the original TR3 tranny case.
>
>Bill (Damdinger)
>
>PS Actually, I don't know about over here, but back in the day over in
>Europe, they did run some automatic transmissions in race cars. The way I
>understand it, David Hobbs family built automatic transmissions. I am not
>sure
>what they went into, but I am going to guess Jaguar as the Tornado Cars
>Works racing logs we have talk about racing against the 'Hobbs Jag'.
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