[alfa] Re: "American Style Shifting ?"

[Joe Garcia <lacorsanostra@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- alfacybersite <acs@domain.elided> wrote:
> Many years ago when I was looking for a pristine
> GTV6 I took a drive in
> one being offered by a private party. I kept
> apologizing for my lack of
> 'clutch finesse'. The twin plate clutch was
> definitely not my cup of
> beer. The owner told me not to worry, I'd get used
> to it. (Bought it,
> never did, had Rex Chalmers change it out with a
> Milano turbo single
> plate). However, he couldn't believe how easily I
> shifted, especially
> from 1st to 2nd. He remarked (no, he wasn't a
> sexist, Tess) how two
> young ladies had come out to look at the car. The
> one driving would
> simply slam the lever from 1st to 2nd. Obviously it
> balked but
> apparently didn't even occour to her to simply ease
> it into gear. It was
> 2nd nature for me to pause momentarily from having
> driven / shifted my
> Alfetta GT for years.

De nobis fabula narratur.

I learned to nurse a very moribund 2nd gear synchro in
my Alfetta GT, and when the time to get my Maratona I
was able to shift it in such a way as to keep 2nd
gear's synchro healthy.

Never did learn the Fred Way, though.

Alas.

-J.


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