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Re: Trucks Are Beautiful
1952 GMC M211
302 I-6 with an 8 speed "automatic" transmission.
Gears are manually selected and torque converter is locked in all gears except first and reverse.
Transfercase is also fully automatic.
The one picture has the center console. The massive starter lever is on the right. Pulling the lever manually engages the starter bendex. As the bendex engages, the linkage pushes a large button mounted on the starter to engage the motor. In the center is the primary shifter selector which has an upside down U pattern. Left side is low range, right side is high range. Top center is nuetral. From forward to back on each side the choices are: hilly, level, reverse. To the left of that is the gear selector (not all M211s had this, this was a conversion the army did). Four positions from front to back for 1-2-3-4. Transmission stays in that gear regardless of anything else you do with the exception of high and low range selected from the primary selector.
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