04-22-2012, 02:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Ellington,
CT
Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadster 351W, T5, Red & White
Posts: 3,478
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DMXF
Perhaps because the potential of automatics as the optimal transmission was starting to be recognized. I recall the J car Ken Miles was testing and died in had an automatic. Didn't top shelf sports race cars like the Chaparral use automatics?
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" In 1964, at Laguna Seca, the Chaparral 2 introduced an “automatic” transmission, which eliminated the clutch pedal and freed the divers left foot to operate the brake while keeping to other foot on the throttle "
Chaparral 2
" tell me about the cars automatic transmission: "It was a semi-automatic transmission, it wasn't fully automatic. It had a three-speed transmission with a torque converter and a lock-up at 5,000 rpm. It was quite complicated to get it running. The steering column went down between your two feet so the left foot could only work the brake and the right foot could only work the gas pedal. "
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