[V8] $59000....nope

[Kent McLean]

cobram at juno.com wrote:
>  "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> writes:
> 
>> That great tractor motor up front was sluggish to say the least.  
> 
> I have a transmission out of one somewhere out of some English car.  I
> can't remember what I pulled it out of, but it's a tractor transmission,
> literally, all they did was slap it in the car with a bolted piece of
> steel over reduced 1st gear, so 2nd tractor gear becomes...ta da....1st
> motor carriage gear.  R&D, what's that, a pub in Brighton?

The original Austin-Healey 100 (BN1, for the anal retentive) had a 3-speed
made from a 4-speed with its too-low first gear blocked off. The later 100s
(BN2) got a real 4-speed with a real 1st gear.

http://www.healey.org/model-100.shtml

-- 
Kent McLean
'91 200 TQA #1, for sale
'91 200 TQA #2, no name yet
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
'56 Austin-Healey 100 BN2