<VV> 5 speed transmission

[kevin nash]

> > Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:20:30 EDT
> From: BobHelt at aol.com
> Subject: Re: <VV> FYI Corvair for sale : 5 Speed !?!?
> To: dpleau at wavecable.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> In a message dated 9/4/2010 5:37:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, 
> dpleau at wavecable.com writes:
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> American Boxer or Clarks. About 20 of them were made seven or eight years
> ago by Lin Richardson.
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> But not for early models.
> Regards,
> Bob Helt

 Bob- while you are correct that that the five speeds were all done for lates, it is not true that you couldn't put one in an early,- you just had
to be willing to "do something" about the fit issue regarding the rear cross-member on the earlys. I bought one of these transmissions from
Lin in 1998 or 1999 (pre-ordered before the production run) just for putting in my early. In my case I was going to convert my rear suspension
to the late type (still have the pieces to do it)- resolving the fit issue that way, and getting a nicer rear suspension in the process! Also,
because I wasn't very impressed (neither was Lin) with the funky shift linkage, we decided to modifiy my transmission case so that it could
be mounted upside down, so as to put the t-5 transmission selector shaft nearly in the same spot as it would have been with a stock transmission,
greatly simplifying the shift linkage, and greatly improving the shift feel.
 
Oh what could have been!!
Kevin Nash