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Title: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Amigo on 27 November 2009, 21:53:04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAADEoJpTFQ
I drive an artic with the usual range & split box, i can drive a non synchro crash box, even struggle with an Eaton twin split but i cannot work out how a twin stick works.
    I'd love to have a go! ::)

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Debs. on 27 November 2009, 21:55:50

Easy, if you can rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time! ;)

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Vamps on 27 November 2009, 22:24:45

Give me an auto anyday......... :y

I did both HGV and PSV tests on 'crash' boxes but I take my hat off to that driver........ :y

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Amigo on 27 November 2009, 22:28:36

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Easy, if you can rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time! ;)

If you want me to rub your tummy & pat the collies head you only have to ask!!!! :D

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: robbo299 on 27 November 2009, 23:12:02

Watching the driver in the vid reminds me of the stories my `ol dad told me about during the war. He was in the Royal Artillery and drove big Bedford and, i think, Scamell trucks towing big guns. He said part of the test he took when he joined up was going up and down the gearbox double clutching, and all between the distance of two telegraph poles. :o Thank god times have changed and i have a nice auto box in my miggy. ;)

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: mrjimbo on 28 November 2009, 04:14:09

Front stick is the gear 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 etc and the rear stick is the spliter, there's a Hi and Low on each gear as opposed to Low range 1,2,3,4 then Hi range 5,6,7,8  :y

The rear stick does the same job as a switch on a conventional gear stick, except a switch would operate an electro-pneumatic solenoid to move a selector and the rear stick is coupled directly to the selector   :y

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Auto Addict on 28 November 2009, 05:58:48

My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties, as he was brought up on crash boxes, he made me double d clutch up and down the gear box (even though the car had syncros on all gears apart from 1st and reverse).

Still can't get out of the habit today if I drive a manual.

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: hotel21 on 28 November 2009, 18:04:03

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My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

So why drive slower now if you learnt at such a high speed??   :o  :o

 ;D   :y

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Auto Addict on 28 November 2009, 18:18:57

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My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

So why drive slower now if you learnt at such a high speed??   :o  :o

 ;D   :y

I drive according to the road conditions and speed limits, and, I hope within my capabilities.

 :P

I'll have you know, I got it up to 51mph today - scary ;)

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Pitchfork on 28 November 2009, 18:22:21

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My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties, as he was brought up on crash boxes, he made me double d clutch up and down the gear box (even though the car had syncros on all gears apart from 1st and reverse).

Still can't get out of the habit today if I drive a manual.

Me too, that's how I was taught in a 1968 Escort

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: CaptainZok on 28 November 2009, 18:59:39

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My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

So why drive slower now if you learnt at such a high speed??   :o  :o

 ;D   :y

I drive according to the road conditions and speed limits, and, I hope within my capabilities.

 :P

I'll have you know, I got it up to 51mph today - scary ;)

Mrs AA driving?  ;D

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: sexydaz on 28 November 2009, 19:19:54

thats nowt,yer should of seen me on mi raleigh grifter.them sturmey archers were a bugger :)

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: R.C. ™ on 28 November 2009, 20:40:42

Hope his phone don't ring .. lol - bugger holding that aswell " not that we do "  :exclamation car phone god

Title: Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Post by: Auto Addict on 28 November 2009, 20:59:34

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My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

So why drive slower now if you learnt at such a high speed??   :o  :o

 ;D   :y

I drive according to the road conditions and speed limits, and, I hope within my capabilities.

 :P

I'll have you know, I got it up to 51mph today - scary ;)

Mrs AA driving?  ;D

She was hiding on the floor in the back.