230 Dodge

[Wayne64]

While drinking my evening Brandy a memory came back. I was always a Ford guy and thought my M37 was my first Dodge and my first 230 Flat head Dodge power. Tonight I remembered that in 1965 while in forestry college I bought a $60 car for runs to town. That car was a 2dr 1950 Dodge D34. I just went and searched out the car model. I did remember that it had a very strange transmission called Gyromatic. It had a clutch, was fluid drive and you could either shift as a stick or leave it in high gear and with the right idle rpm not use the clutch (even at a stop sign). Turns out that was a 230 FH 6 also. God I'm old

[Monkey Man]

Not old Wayne, it's called "experienced"!

MM

[w30bob]

Or "wise".



bob

[hbb]

Not that old! When I was in High School I had a buddy that also had an old dodge that had the same transmission and that was our road drinking car, when we got drunk anyone could drive it clutch or not and get us back home. We lived in a very rural area so on one else was on the road just the stars and us.
Those were the good old day’s Wayne Thanks for drinking the brandy and helping me remember.
hb

[Carter]

I also remember driving a early 50s Chrysler with that same transmission which belonged to the store owner where I worked after high school. I was not sure how to shift it but what ever I did seemed to work out ok and I returned it in the same condition as when I borrowed it. I had to make some deliveries that day and my 55 Chev's transmission, a three speed with overdrive was apart in my garage at home. Had not thought about that in what seems like hundreds of years but it was only 50 yrs ago.

[52 M-42]

That's the sort of stuff that I catch myself saying that reminds me just how old I am. Things like "... it was ONLY 50 years ago." That's a long time ago.

My chronological age never ceases to astound me. I certainly don't feel like I am in my sixties, and my wife swears that even on my good days I'm not much more than 12, at best.

Just goes to show I guess, that the older you become, the more important it becomes NOT to act your age.

52 M-42

[Wayne64]

Another Brandy, and reading this another memory popped up.It seems that car had a weak battery and when the temps dropped to around 5 below it wouldn't start. At the time using my very few extra $$ on Molson's Ale was more important than a battery. So unlike a standard stick shift you can't just get a few guy's to push you for a bump start. The fluid drive coupling prevented that, unless you get that car going about 30 mph and then pop the clutch. So I was pushed so many times by the schools log truck that the trunk was bashed in. After that I strapped a pine log to the bumper for the pushes, worked great.
I can almost still smell that musty mohair interior

[Carter]

That's the sort of stuff that I catch myself saying that reminds me just how old I am. Things like "... it was ONLY 50 years ago." That's a long time ago.

My chronological age never ceases to astound me. I certainly don't feel like I am in my sixties, and my wife swears that even on my good days I'm not much more than 12, at best.

Just goes to show I guess, that the older you become, the more important it becomes NOT to act your age.

52 M-42

Well, you are so right, 50 yrs. is a long time and lately I have been feeling a lot older than my age and have back surgery scheduled in January. Have been in a lot of pain and the Oxycodone does little to ease it.

[Cal_Gary]

Well it so happens that I'm hitting the double nickel here at the end of the year-still feel great for my age-I believe that age is an attitude, so if you feel young at heart, you WILL be!
Gary

[Wayne64]

Well, you are so right, 50 yrs. is a long time and lately I have been feeling a lot older than my age and have back surgery scheduled in January. Have been in a lot of pain and the Oxycodone does little to ease it.[/quote]


Carter, good luck with the surgery. As far as the Oxycontin goes my advise is to use it little. Constant use reduces it's felt pain relieving abilities. I'm in pain every day of my life and have only reached for it rarely. When I do it works. The down side is when I take one I tend to over do it and the next day pay for it. I have found when the pain is especially bad I'll pop a Valium or two which in my mind is a safer and non additive way to muffle the pain. Remember pain is the reminder to take it slower.
Good luck in the New Year

[Carter]

Oxy does not help and have stopped taking them. don't have Valium, grin and bare it.

[Carter]

Well it so happens that I'm hitting the double nickel here at the end of the year-still feel great for my age-I believe that age is an attitude, so if you feel young at heart, you WILL be!
Gary

I've gone so far beyond the double nickel that's just change in my pocket of years gone by, 68 this month.

[m-37Bruce]

Can't you old farts just agree to disagree?
I use Naproxen, one a day, every day.

[Carter]

Well Bruce, I'm just a disagreeable old geezer.

[skinnedknuckles]

You guys are funny I'm still a young pup, but I do remember the days when I thought 30 was old, and the days when 40 was old ,and now I'm getting close to remembering w..h..e..n 5..0 w..a..s oh thats depressing But the main thing is that I sure don't act my age but I do feel it sometimes. I can still get up off of a creeper and still can climb around on heavy equipment but it does take its toll by the end of the day. I figure take every day as it comes as a gift from the Big guy. I remember working on a few of these gyro-transmissions with the fluid couplings. Yale fork lift put these in few fork lifts, as I remember the blocks were different from regular manual shift blocks. The back 2 oil galleries were drilled larger and not tapped for plugs, but were machined for o-rings because the torque converter used engine oil as its fluid of choice.
Paul