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chadders wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:13 pm
Hooli wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:10 pm The only thing I've ever driven with OD was a MGB & you had to back off as I think it was vacuum actuated. You'd flick the switch & it'd change as you lifted anyway.
It's a long time since mines been on the road but I certainly never lifted off when going from 3rd to overdrive 3rd for example.
Maybe it depended on the year? or the one I test drove was dodgy? I don't know.
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I believe the Fiat 500 got into gear without the aid of any synchromesh until 1972. By then even Landrover hàd added synchromesh to first and second for the then new series 3, creating a box that was much nastier to use than the one it replaced.
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Hooli wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:10 pm I wonder what the last car with a pre-selector box was? I used to drive coaches with them & they seemed a great idea once you got used to it.
Got to be a Daimler ( or Lanchester) of some sort , surely?
Apart from Armstrong Siddley , I can’t think of any other cars that used them and Armstrong Siddley didn’t make it into the 60’s .
I’ve only experienced one in a Ferret , which was, from memory a late 60’s one, but I don’t think that counts as a car.
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I had a mate with a Ferret once, she got it as an engagement present. Odd but amusing couple.
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My mate that had one was also odd.
He also had an Abbot , which he flipped over, killing his new wife. Luckily his dead wife’s cousin came over from the Philippines for the funeral and then married him. Sort of buy one get one free.
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chadders wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:13 pm
Hooli wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 6:10 pm The only thing I've ever driven with OD was a MGB & you had to back off as I think it was vacuum actuated. You'd flick the switch & it'd change as you lifted anyway.
It's a long time since mines been on the road but I certainly never lifted off when going from 3rd to overdrive 3rd for example.
Mines on the road and 100% doesn't need backing off.

Iirc 1967-ish is when the overdrive type changed and I think the older ones were vacuum operated and later ones are solenoid operated.
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Hooli wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:18 pm I had a mate with a Ferret once, she got it as an engagement present. Odd but amusing couple.
Did she keep it in her trousers?

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I haven't looked into it over-much but I am often surprised how many late-ish cars have them when browsing Ebay and the like.
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