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Old 04-24-2012, 02:49 AM   #12 (permalink)
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There were also external overdrives that were fitted to older Brit-cars like MGs and Triumphs. I believe those gave you a choice of two gear ratios between the output of the transmission and the input of the differential. So you effectively had twice as many gears--generally eight of them.

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