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Amigo MX5 Omega King Offline Now doing hair & beauty treatments!!!!! Posts: 13743 Immingham N.E Lincs. Gender: Drives: TOPLESS!!!!!	Old timer shifting gears. 27. Nov 2009 at 21:53 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!
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Debs. Omega Lord Offline A denizen of The Wirral peninsula Posts: 7386 Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 CDX Estate (1999)	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #1 - 27. Nov 2009 at 21:55 Easy, if you can rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time!
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Vamps Omega King Offline Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared. Posts: 16571 Bishop Middleham, Co Durham. Gender: Drives: 2.0L Auto Estate & 2.2 CD Auto Saloon	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #2 - 27. Nov 2009 at 22:24 Give me an auto anyday......... I did both HGV and PSV tests on 'crash' boxes but I take my hat off to that driver........
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Amigo MX5 Omega King Offline Now doing hair & beauty treatments!!!!! Posts: 13743 Immingham N.E Lincs. Gender: Drives: TOPLESS!!!!!	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #3 - 27. Nov 2009 at 22:28 Debs. wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 21:55: 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!!!!
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Reply #4 - 27. Nov 2009 at 23:12

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. Shocked

Thank god times have changed and i have a nice auto box in my miggy. Wink

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Reply #5 - 28. Nov 2009 at 04:14

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 Thumbs Up!

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 Thumbs Up!

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Auto Addict Administrator Offline OOF's Elder Statesman Posts: 10091 North Birmingham Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #6 - 28. Nov 2009 at 05:58 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.
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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #7 - 28. Nov 2009 at 18:04 Auto Addict wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 05:58: My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties So why drive slower now if you learnt at such a high speed??
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Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Reply #8 - 28. Nov 2009 at 18:18

hotel21 wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 18:04:

Auto Addict wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 05:58:

My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

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

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

Tongue

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

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Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Reply #9 - 28. Nov 2009 at 18:22

Auto Addict wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 05:58:

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

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Re: Old timer shifting gears.
Reply #10 - 28. Nov 2009 at 18:59

Auto Addict wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 18:18:

hotel21 wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 18:04:

Auto Addict wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 05:58:

My Dad tought me how to drive in the fifties

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

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

Tongue

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

Mrs AA driving? Grin

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hercules Ex Member	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #11 - 28. Nov 2009 at 19:19 thats nowt,yer should of seen me on mi raleigh grifter.them sturmey archers were a bugger
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R.C. ™ Intermediate Member Offline R.C. 本傑明 ™ Posts: 466 Surrey . England Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 ELITE . Vauxhall Frontera 2.2 16v	Re: Old timer shifting gears. Reply #12 - 28. Nov 2009 at 20:40 Hope his phone don't ring .. lol - bugger holding that aswell " not that we do " car phone god
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