Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fwd: 575 trip

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Peter notes “. . . . but you could hear the thing [PDK] flipping back and forth”

 

Picture this – 1963, Fort Ord California, basic training and me with a contingent and a load of young troops in the bed of a 2 ½ ton GMC army truck with automatic transmission.  Speed limit on post is 25 mph.  Gear change from first to second is 24 mph or it must have been. But unlike Peter’s experience – “Not that the car was lurching or jerking. . .” this big deuce and a half slammed in and out of gear almost dumping the half of its load on the street at each interval.

 

Ahh – those were the days

 

DOUG