<VV> "water wheel" transmission

[Hugo Miller]

I would assume he means a fluid flywheel, or torque converter, which a 
development of the fluid flywheel.The fluid flywheel is one of the 
cleverest inventions ever in my book - it's worth studying how they work 
- utterly ingenious.


On 2019-09-18 19:25, Harry Yarnell (Verizon) via VirtualVairs wrote:
> I don't get it.
>
>
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> Thompson via VirtualVairs
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> Subject: <VV> "water wheel" transmission
>
> In a reader letter in the November, 2019 issue of Hemmings Classic 
> Car, the
> writer refers to the transmission in his wife's Corvair Monza, back 
> in
> 1967, by this description.  I don't recall hearing of a "water wheel"
> transmission reference previously, but I guess I get it.
>
> Ed Thompson
> Greenfield (Milwaukee) WI
> '66 Monza sedan, 110 / "water wheel" glide
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