51 3-speed crashbox?
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51 3-speed crashbox?
There's a nice 51 on Bring a Trailer with a floor shifted 3-speed non-synchro transmission. This is a new one on me -I knew the 4-speeds were crashboxes, but I thought both column shift and floor shift 3-speeds were sychro. Educate me, please!
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I'd say the copy writers were either mistaken, or just making stuff up as they went along. 3 speed transmissions, light duty or heavy duty, (the light duty version was column shifted after mid-late 1950) had synchros between 2nd and 3rd gears. 1st was not synchromeshed.
Here's a link to the truck. It looks like a nice one. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...f-1-pickup-38/
Here's a link to the truck. It looks like a nice one. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...f-1-pickup-38/
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I'd say the copy writers were either mistaken, or just making stuff up as they went along. 3 speed transmissions, light duty or heavy duty, (the light duty version was column shifted after mid-late 1950) had synchros between 2nd and 3rd gears. 1st was not synchromeshed.
Here's a link to the truck. It looks like a nice one. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...f-1-pickup-38/
Here's a link to the truck. It looks like a nice one. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...f-1-pickup-38/
I do like the color though…
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