[Aussie Mike]

Ive got one of those Clutched Turbo 400 boxes in the back of the shed. They run a Ford long style pressure plate inside a lakewood steel bellhousing. The pump on the aut is driven by an impeller that engages between the fingers on the Long clutch plate.

The box has a full manual valve body and a reversed shift pattern so instead of being P-R-N-3-2-1 its P-R-N-1-2-3. This is so you can shift up like a normal manual box using a ratchet shifter ie neutral 1-2-3 and then not accidentally knock it into neutral. These boxes were popular in drag racing befor the Lenco became readily available. They have also been made obsolete for the spotsman classes by the extensive devopment done on the power glide.

I still like the idea of a Clutched Auto and plan to use it in a nostalgia drag car at some time in the future.

Cheers