Funny pic/gif thread...

Let's tie it all together. I could handle this gear shift , if I didn't drink too much with my fellow cyclists.
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ShootingArts said:
This was a four speed in a '66 corvette. Originally came with the hot 427 in it but like most of those engines it was blown by somebody that didn't realize Chevy was serious about having to warm them up before revving them hard. When I bought it the car had a new from crate 350 in it from about 1970. I think original transmission but I don't know.

The transmission in it didn't have any spring assistance to guide you shifting. I hadn't used a clutch for anything but starting and stopping for years and having driven everything from a three on a tree to a 25 speed quadroplex in an eighteen wheeler I didn't sweat little details. I later had a '63 with a 365HP 327 that seemed to have the same or a very similar transmission.

Hu
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OEM Muncie shifters did not self center. Aftermarket Hurst did.
 
jimmyco said:
OEM Muncie shifters did not self center. Aftermarket Hurst did.
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I don't remember any of my Hurst shifters self-centering but neither of the 'vettes had Hurst shifters. Somebody had put one in my 428SCJ Torino I believe. Danged thing had a tranny with straight cut gears, howled like a rock crusher muncie. All of my high performance cars before that I could lay down a solid black line with no gaps from first to fourth. That one, I could put my hands on each set of tire marks at the same time but I couldn't lay down a continuous stripe between gears.

The main thing I remember about the Hurst shifters were that they were very stiff and tight. They had slightly oversized hardened still shift linkage along with a very stiff shift lever. I had a three speed scratch box in my dirt car that had been built for racing. No clutch, the shifts had to be very positive and with a 600+ horsepower 327 and my foot on the floor there wasn't but one try to get it right shifting or things would get very ugly fast!

I put Hurst shifters in my cars for the quality. Then again, had to support Linda Vaughn too! Tried to find a nice picture of her in her prime to get the thread back on track, no luck. This one ain't terrible. She had talent in places most people didn't even have places! Still kicking I believe, in her early eighties.

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ShootingArts said:
I don't remember any of my Hurst shifters self-centering but neither of the 'vettes had Hurst shifters. Somebody had put one in my 428SCJ Torino I believe. Danged thing had a tranny with straight cut gears, howled like a rock crusher muncie. All of my high performance cars before that I could lay down a solid black line with no gaps from first to fourth. That one, I could put my hands on each set of tire marks at the same time but I couldn't lay down a continuous stripe between gears.

The main thing I remember about the Hurst shifters were that they were very stiff and tight. They had slightly oversized hardened still shift linkage along with a very stiff shift lever. I had a three speed scratch box in my dirt car that had been built for racing. No clutch, the shifts had to be very positive and with a 600+ horsepower 327 and my foot on the floor there wasn't but one try to get it right shifting or things would get very ugly fast!

I put Hurst shifters in my cars for the quality. Then again, had to support Linda Vaughn too! Tried to find a nice picture of her in her prime to get the thread back on track, no luck. This one ain't terrible. She had talent in places most people didn't even have places! Still kicking I believe, in her early eighties.

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Here you go.

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Linda was so important to Hurst marketing that they gave up on the plan to replace her when she started getting long in the tooth and instead had her put together a team of Golden Girls or something similar as far as the name went. Linda riding around or down the track hanging on to a very phallic looking golden shifter was a part of the racing scene that people expected at a big event.

Starting as Miss Atlanta and Miss Fireball, I forget which first, she knew everybody at the top in racing and partied hard with most of them by reports!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Linda was so important to Hurst marketing that they gave up on the plan to replace her when she started getting long in the tooth and instead had her put together a team of Golden Girls or something similar as far as the name went. Linda riding around or down the track hanging on to a very phallic looking golden shifter was a part of the racing scene that people expected at a big event.

Starting as Miss Atlanta and Miss Fireball, I forget which first, she knew everybody at the top in racing and partied hard with most of them by reports!

Hu
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She was an icon. Jungle Pam was another great from that Era.
Lol (I'm laughing so the funny thread police don't get upset)
 
Today? Go here before buying Hurst...but no Linda...remember her well. Jungle Pam too...;)

www.mgwshifters.com

MGW Aftermarket Racing Shifters

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