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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted August 19, 2018 03:02 AM

This is not a film question, although it is somewhat film related.
I recently bought the Universal 400ft Super 8 version of "Earthquake".
In one sequence Charlton Heston is driving his small truck and is stopped by George Kennedy who orders him out of the vehicle as he is commandeering it.
Heston gets out and Kennedy gets in. He seems to look bemused.
"How do you drive this thing?"
Heston replies "It's got a customised gear box, eight forward gears.....
The vehicle lurches backwards.
.....and three in reverse".
As a long time car owner, now with a six-speed manual gearbox, I was interested in the comment. Is it common in North America to have your gearbox customised and how is it done? I assume there is no separate clutch.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 19, 2018 08:04 AM

I‘ve never heard of somebody changing a gearbox that radically. Maybe a different clutch or changing the shift points on an automatic, but basically it is what it is.

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