Posted on 05/06/2017 7:03:45 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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Never shot a gun, I take it?
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The old “Turbo Glide” they introduced in ‘57 is still in use today, slightly beefed up. They call it the Turbo 350.
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Never experienced sarcasm on FR, I take it?
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They used a three phase torque converter that made up for the missing planetary gear set.
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Its just that the Bang threads do tend to bring out some doozies at times.
The Turbo Glides under normal driving conditions was essentially a single speed, the torque converter acted as a gear reduction during acceleration, hill climbing, etc, similar to the Buick Dynaflow. There were in a sense precursors to the CVT that Nissan uses.
Were any show cars hit during the incident ?
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Turboglide and dynaflow both had planetary gear sets and multi-disk clutch packs to achieve reduction.
The torque converter allows the engine to over-speed the driven torus, which converts velocity to pressure by return flow of the moving oil, thus increasing torsional force.
Much energy is lost as heat in that process, which is why modern transmissions use variable reduction gear sets rather than large torque converters.
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No, but about 20 of them were detained because they were within the crime scene. None were impounded but the owners had to wait a couple of hours until the investigation was complete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDpIi5QNpw
The short of it is, if someone is charging you with a knife, from 21 feet or less, your either going to be in the hospital suffering from a knife wound, or you'll be dead.
Do you think the guy will get an honorary degree from a college for being shot?
Widely known as the Tueller drill, after the LEO who first started doing it. Popularized by noted lethal force expert Massad Ayoob. I’m reading his book Deadly Force right now, which is a follow up to his notable earlier work In the Gravest Extreme.
Page 68 here is an excerpt from his book talking about the Tueller drill origins and details:
http://tinyurl.com/luxt3qz
Ah yes, good ol' Dynaflow.
Had a '53 Buick as a teenie bopper.Straight 8 w/ Dynaflow. Very comfortable couchlike front seat. :)
BTW, how reliable are these CVT transmissions? Do they use variable pulleys and belt?
Back in high school days, a pal’s dad owned an early 50’s Oldsmobile. There had been a fire at the Hydramatic plant so this Olds came with a Buick Dynamics’s Flow. It sounded like a Buick...just one long gear.
I like taking friends out in my ‘55 model 210. I tell them to wait to hear the upshift as we’re going down the road. After it does i tell’em to stop listening, that’s all the gears she’s got.
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“In law enforcement training they have a subject come at you with a rubber knife from across a large room.”
The Tueller drill.
I went through the FBI Citizen’s Academy. During shoot/don’t shoot drills with paint projectile weapons I shot the bad guy right in the trigger finger. I had total tunnel vision.
The officer was working a uniformed, off-duty shift at a car show in downtown Tarpon Springs when visitors alerted him to a "suspicious" white man riding a bike in the area, Tarpon Springs police Maj. Jeffrey Young said.
By golly, we got the color code of the "suspicious" fellow right out of the gate on this one.
That terrific Tampa Bay Times, contrary to just about every daily paper across the country, must have a truly color-blind policy of reportage, right?
Right?
He tried but missed.
A happy ending, glad the cop went home that evening.
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