When using the word transmission in the plural form, I really mean it. As a young car freak in the ’60’s, I was growing up in the greatest era of muscle cars ever. I bought many used transmissions back then. Nowadays, people don’t have any idea of what a big block, 4 on the floor muscle car with fat rear tires experience is like. The cars that go fast today do it differently. We used raw cubic inches and pure unadulterated horsepower to get the job done. Today we use smaller high tech engines with turbochargers and 6 speed transmissions. They go fast for sure, but you loose the overall sensation of the noise, rumble, road feel and rough ride that made them fun to drive in a cave man way.
I’m not trying to compare the go fast cars of today with the go fast cars of yesterday. It would be like comparing apples and oranges. Two totally different beasts. One thing remains true though, if you abuse your go fast car as I did in my go fast era, you will break some expensive parts on your ride. Period. The worst thing that can break, in my opinion, on some of these exotic performance cars is the transmission.
With that in mind, if you do not want to patronize the junk yards on a regular basis, as I did, learn how to go fast without being abusive. Believe me when I say I went through a bunch of transmissions as a kid. I was very industrious as a kid and always worked and saved my doe. I shoveled snow and mowed lawns and washed cars and did anything folks in the neighborhood would pay me to do until I got my first real job at Burns VW Clinic when I turned 15 years old.
One of my first cars was a 1958 Porsche 356B model. It was not your classic muscle car. In fact it was slow compared to an American muscle car, unless you wanted to road race. But, I liked to drag race, and rear engined cars have to much weight over the rear wheels to ‘squeal tires’ on take off or ‘bang’ the gears when you shift. Alas, that is why I put 1 rebuilt transmission in it, and 3 used ones in a period of one year. Keep in mind that I paid for all or most of the repairs. If I came up short my dad would contribute to the cause, because I was very industrious and always worked hard.
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