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PAUL161

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Not sure where to put this, but I read elsewhere about a device to convert an MGB to an electric clutch. I had a 1973 Volkswagon Superbug where it had one built in it. You could shift manually or use the clutch pedal. The idea isn't new, but great for disabled drivers. PJ
 
a-HA! I knew that title sounded familiar.

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Basil submitted a new resource: Electronic Clutch - An electronic clutch device to allow people with limited leg strength to drive manual cars In a thread about replacing the gearbox in a Triumph TR4A, one of our members @RGK posted a link to an outfit that sells an "Electronic Clutch." It's...
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(I'd like to find and drive an auto-stick VW myself ...)
 
VW auto sticks were very sluggish, I guess due to the combo torque converter/clutch assembly. Took a little getting used to, once up to speed, you would never know any difference.
 
Paul - "sluggish" was also used to describe the first true "fluid drive" transmissions of the '20s and '30s. Only the fluid provided the torque to turn the driveshaft. Amazingly simple, but really slow on the take-off.
Tom M.
 
My father had a 1948 Chrysler New Yorker with Fluid Drive. You could use the clutch pedal - or not. I learned to drive on that car. Sluggish, but not as much as Buick's Dynaflow or Chevy's Powerglide.
 
Fluid Drive. Dynaflow, Powerglide ... names that will live in our hearts forever! :rolleyes: (Or at least, that's the thought of the SAE in the late 1940s, when they wrote something like: the clutch-less transmission will benefit the driver, but will benefit the car even more. Less stress on the entire drive train.)

Paul - ever hear of the 1942 Ford "Liquamatic"? Didn't last long, but it was their first attempt at an automatic.
 
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