my guess it is a T-10 4 speed. easy to break 2nd gear so you just start out in 2nd. With all the torque of the 427 you really don't need first gear except to load it on the trailer. He was nice and gentle on the drive train the whole race.
I don't think so. Watch how he keeps it in the same gear going slow around some turns and also down all but the fastest straights. I would think if that was third gear it would stall or bog, and a downshift would be in order.
I was thinking how ginchy it would be if, since they
were used in trucks, that trans was actually a granny gear 4-speed, a BW or NP box. Shouldn't they be tougher than a Top Loader? Then I imagined the fun of that car with a starting line clutch dump in granny low, and the Galaxie getting black flagged for piling up too many competitors' cars on his hood. Weird. Maybe I should stop smoking that fungus I scraped off the south wall of my property. Maybe.
