Re: [DMCForum] Re: Angle Drive Cable (Martin)

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Want to buy a Renault 30 gearbox casing? I want yours back in exchange tho

I thought a doodlebug was a V1 flying bomb. Did Porsche really take a 
mechanical speed drive from the rear? Learn something every day...

Martin

content22207 wrote:

> I most emphatically do *NOT* agree with you. Where do rear engine
> Porsches take off? From the transmission. Where do Doodlebugs take
> off? From the transmission. There's a very good possibility the
> speedometer cables in my front engine Lincolns are even long enough a
> DeLo transmission.
>
> It's just another piece of questionable DMC engineering. The car is
> full of ideas that looked better on paper than they turned out in
> reality.
>
> It's hard to change an engineer's mind once he or she has gotten a
> preconceived notion into it.
>
> That is unless the angle drive was thrown on the car in those last
> minutes rush to production.
>
> Bill Robertson
> #5939

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