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What a shame that something, quite easy to maintain, is often criminally neglected.

It seems any “classic” or “vintage” car just pulls big money in this day and age. Like Putin, it seems some people want to revive anything Soviet.

That would be a good reason to have such a low first gear Bryce. Some cars certainly are not thought out well, or only use certain components allowed?

Lol No These are designed for hundreds of thousands of hours mate, or many millions of k’s :cool:

Wow, Not long at all Styria. Amazing things like that even went into service. At the other end of the scale, we have what we call crawler gears for super heavy loads (250 tonnes) that can do a maximum of 2kph at full torque revs of 1450 rpm out of a 16 litre 700hp truck while using 1 litre of...

Yes, A great trick Styria, select second gear, before first or reverse. First gear is whiney due to the fact the gears were straight cut gears. A straight cut gear, or a spur gear only has one point of contact and very course when engaged, and very weak due to the single tooth contact...

How hard can it be? Revs Torque Throttle position Do not push clutch to far as the clutch brake is engaged (stops input shaft from spinning to engage a gear when stationary as there are no synchros to do this) Range change switch Splitter switch Gear stick or gear cable wear to take into account...

Yes, A GTG would be good there. I may have to bring the Fairmont down when I’ve finished it. A really nice selection of cars there Bryce, but isn’t that Ferrari just WOW.

Here is a bit of a demo in a Kenworth road train Brian.

I will endeavour to do so Michel. The build of straight RoadRanger manuals now is about 1 in every 200 builds. Generally these would be destined for WA delivery. But I will keep an eye out.

Some real bargains there.

:cool: Can’t agree more Brian. All my nieces and nephews cars I have bought for them over the years are manual. They enjoy their cars more. I really need to bring an 18 speed non synchro box for you to drive Brian. You could pretty much say, you have driven them all then.

That’s a lot of gears Sean.

Speaking of the PV Brian. Have you got a set of these for country picnics?

Very nice info Sean. The Packard Merlin not only powered the beautiful North American P51 Mustang, it also had a very close link to JFK. Triple Packard Merlin’s were the power supply for the PT (Patrol Torpedo) Boats, thus the PT109 which was skippered by Lieutenant JG John F Kennedy...

You are spot on Sean. All of these items are there to “assist” the driver only. Not to replace them. Our trucks also have all of these and more. The way I train drivers is that you are in charge, and here are your assistants. If they look at it this way, they understand their...

Mark, Fair comment, of which we are all entitled. Plus, understand you will not buy one. As someone (like me) who likes all things mechanical, and engineering, please for your own records, go climb in, out and under one. Just for your own reference to see what modern Chinese engineering looks...

Absolutely Brian. Stunningly gorgeous. Supposedly owned at one stage by J Bruce Ismay of White Star/Titanic fame.

Sean, A typical chassis completed by Rolls-Royce before heading to the customers preferred coach builder. All of the essentials are there except the actual body. Note all electrics and gauges are completed.

Sean, Since BMW have owned Rolls-Royce the transmissions have been supplied by Zahnradfabrik or ZF, and are made in Saarbrücken Germany. The new Phantom VIII has a GPS controlled 8 speed automatic transmission with hydraulic converter. The transmission has the ability to skip shift for...