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<blockquote data-quote="SecondhandSnake" data-source="post: 16610373" data-attributes="member: 116684"><p>That Revel scale engine must have been pretty cool. Do they even still sell models like that? I remember going to hobby stores and even department stores just in awe of the entire aisles of models, spending hours upon hours building them. Of course, I'm sure many of us were familiar with the rite of passage that was tearing down and rebuilding endless junk actual small engines. I wish I could find the clip of King of the Hill where Hank goes "Bobby, you are going to take apart this carburetor and put it back together until you know how to do it with your eyes closed."</p><p></p><p>I had to look up which transmission that Buick ad meant- I thought it was the later Super Turbine but in '60 it must have been the Dynaflow. Crazy that they had a manually shifted 2 speed with such a slushy converter you couldn't even feel it shift. I've drive an old Super Turbine 300 (actually a Jetaway as Oldsmobile marketed it), and it would hold low gear up to 60mph when you got on it. The "switch pitch" that would actually vary the angle of the torque converter stator was really neat, providing a variable converter slip. That said, swapping to a TH-350 was a huge improvement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SecondhandSnake, post: 16610373, member: 116684"] That Revel scale engine must have been pretty cool. Do they even still sell models like that? I remember going to hobby stores and even department stores just in awe of the entire aisles of models, spending hours upon hours building them. Of course, I'm sure many of us were familiar with the rite of passage that was tearing down and rebuilding endless junk actual small engines. I wish I could find the clip of King of the Hill where Hank goes "Bobby, you are going to take apart this carburetor and put it back together until you know how to do it with your eyes closed." I had to look up which transmission that Buick ad meant- I thought it was the later Super Turbine but in '60 it must have been the Dynaflow. Crazy that they had a manually shifted 2 speed with such a slushy converter you couldn't even feel it shift. I've drive an old Super Turbine 300 (actually a Jetaway as Oldsmobile marketed it), and it would hold low gear up to 60mph when you got on it. The "switch pitch" that would actually vary the angle of the torque converter stator was really neat, providing a variable converter slip. That said, swapping to a TH-350 was a huge improvement. [/QUOTE]
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