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Ready...set...Laycock!
Triumph TR-6
ReplyDeleteVolvo 121/122 'Amazon'.
ReplyDeleteI will note that the current version of the Laycock - the Gear Vendors OD unit - has probably been built in greater numbers as an aftermarket kit for the F-250 alone than ever hit the road in many of those Brit OE installations.
ReplyDeleteJaguars..I'll start with MkII
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ReplyDeleteSunbeam Alpine Series 5
ReplyDeleteFerrari 250GTE.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to tie one hand behind my back on this topic and post no British brands.
DeleteVolvo p1800
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of our beloved 1800 (who am I kidding I wasn't familiar with them before DT). Did you see the hammer price on the 1800 BaT auctioned last week. Over 30K and it wasn't perfect either sheesh
DeleteYeah, I saw that. I had hoped Bat auctions would be a little zone of sanity in the classic car market, but they seem to be feeding the frenzy that is driving simple enthusiasts out of the game. Sigh......
Delete+None...for BaT.
DeleteWillys Jeep CJ2A
ReplyDelete(it's not a Laycock, it's a Borg-Warner T11 or something trans with an integral electrically-operated planetary overdrive similar to the Laycock, it was an option on a long list of '50s-60s Detroit vehicles.)
Austin Healey 100
ReplyDeleteMy '40 Hudson had an electric overdrive. Very handy on flathead motors. Reduces the burnt valves.
ReplyDelete1953 Plymouth Belvedere. My dad put an overdrive in it and wired in a switch that would allow you to activate the overdrive in each of 3 (on the tree) forward gears. There was a steep long road near our house and second gear plus overdrive helped the 100 hp flathead 6 drag itself and a car full of hockey equipment and kids home safely...
ReplyDelete1953 Plymouth Belvedere. My dad put an overdrive in it and wired in a switch that would allow you to activate the overdrive in each of 3 (on the tree) forward gears. There was a steep long road near our house and second gear plus overdrive helped the 100 hp flathead 6 drag itself and a car full of hockey equipment and kids home safely...
ReplyDeleteEarly 1970's Humber Sceptre/Hillman Hunter. It worked on third and fourth gear.
ReplyDeleteDoug Nash 4+3 setup in the 1984 Corvette.
ReplyDelete1957 Ford Fairlane (Borg-Warner OD)
ReplyDeleteno such thing as an "electric overdrive". Just a mechanical unit with some basic hydraulics in it, the only thing "electric" about it is a solenoid (like on a starter motor) that flips a mechanical lever to actuate the hydraulics, which moves a clutch assembly to engage a different mechanical gear ratio........ so none of these cars mentioned have ever had an "electric overdrive".
ReplyDeleteBuzzkill. (This comment is a fully-electric pun.)
DeleteI'm pretty sure the Volvo 700 series with a '5 speed manual' where the fifth gear was push button on the shifter was really just a 4sp + OD
ReplyDeleteAlso, Vince, I'm shocked and dismayed that you kept the puns 'family friendly' on the Laycock de Normanville. If I had known what that was when I was 13, I'm sure all we'd be discussing in French class would be 'laying cocks in Normandy' or some other heinously unfunny joke...
DeleteNice one, sfs24. If I recall correctly, it was offered all the way up until 1991.
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