RE: [VintageLambo] Re: Second Gear

If you think a 30-year-old Lamborghini is bad, try a twenty-year-old Ferrari. Slowest, clunkiest transmissions ever built. In its day, the Lambo box was quite advanced for having syncros on all forward gears, for having a syncro on reverse(!), for having five speeds, for having a hydraulic clutch, for having an aluminum case. Put in perspective, it was pretty sophisticated in the days of four-speed pig iron rock crushers. AR -----Original Message----- From: lamboguy [mailto:lambojambo@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 6:28 PM To: VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com Subject: [VintageLambo] Re: Second Gear Hi John, I had my 400gt gearbox "professionally rebuilt" by Lamborghini North America back in 1983.All syncros replaced, etc.And I basically had all those same problems from the start, once the car was back up and running again.I used to drive a lot of different sports cars when I worked at Ferrari and British Motors in Monterey in the early 70s.I don"t really remember anything that shifted very well. Certainly not anything Italian.;^D I think, as AR pointed out, 1960s synchro technology wasn"t that advanced, and certainly nothing like today"s.Our Lambos used "porsche-designed" synchros, and as my buddy Steve (a porsche nut) points out, even porsche doesn"t use their own design any more. I can"t remember any car from the 60s shifting anywhere near as reliably as my 1984 toyota supra does, and it has 240k+ miles on it. It"s just a whole "nuther era, and technology has marched on from the mid-60s. FWIW, I don"t think Lamborghini was any worse than the others, and probably better than most.Be curious to see what others say... Best, Fred