ROPE DRIVE

"Berang" (berang) 02/05/2018 at 03:33 • Filed to: None

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saw this Pontiac Tempest. Yes. It has “rope drive”. Yes, the floor was flat.

Goodnight.

Steve in Manhattan > Berang 02/05/2018 at 03:36

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Is this the rebadged Corvair?

Berang > Steve in Manhattan 02/05/2018 at 03:47

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Nope, but it shares parts with the Corvair. The main thing was it used the corvair transaxle, which allowed the use of a very thin, flexible drive shaft that curved under the floor, so there didn’t have to be a transmission tunnel (and no hump in the firewall either, since the trans was in the rear).

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Berang 02/05/2018 at 03:57

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Huh, today I learned about the rope drive AND a cut-in-half-V8 inline 4 engine.
Seriously, this is pragmatism at its best and a hot mess of a hackjob, I love it :)

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Steve in Manhattan > Berang 02/05/2018 at 04:30

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They spent some money doing the car rear and front engine ... back when they experimented. Sure, they killed a few people, but ... progress! And I recall seeing new ‘69 Corvairs and thinking ... COOL!

kanadanmajava1 > Berang 02/05/2018 at 05:37

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One of my friends had one of these. It was also a convertible and it had the weird sounding 4-cylinder engine. At that point I had no idea that it had very interesting driveline.

E90M3 > Steve in Manhattan 02/05/2018 at 05:58

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I learned somewhat recently that my Grandad bought my Grandma a Corvair in the 60s. She spun it at the end of the road they lived on at the time. While she came out unscathed, I believe it was the last Chevrolet my Granddad bought; he was firmly a Ford guy.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Berang 02/05/2018 at 07:11

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rope drive?

please explain

WilliamsSW > Berang 02/05/2018 at 09:11

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Cool! Did it have the 1/2 389 in it, too?

Steve in Manhattan > E90M3 02/05/2018 at 18:37

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That’ll do it.