Dual/Gate Shifter

I was looking at a 69 hurst olds w/ a dual/gate shifter. I was wondering how they work and does it have a clutch pedal?

 

No. It's for an automatic trans. There's a block-off plate that you flick over out of the way when you want to shift it manually. Then you move the shifter over to the right and that's where the 2nd "gate" is. There are detents built into the gate which allows you to slam the shifter hard up against each detent to shift into the next gear without slipping past and into neutral, which you accidently could easily do, if you manually shift any stock type shifter. I had the same shifter in my 68 GTO. They also called it a His-n-Hers shifter.

 

So the slamming tells the transmition to shift up or down. Do they have this feature on newer cars?

 

Not that I know of.

 

A lot of the new cars with trip-tronic transmissions have this feature, my wife's Acura is one of them, works very much like the old dual gates.

 

LCAC how's work on thoes amphibs? Do you ever get to drive?

 

I had an 83 Hurst / Olds that had Hurst lighting Rods. Simular idea except you had a stick for each gear. You pull all 3 levers back and then slap each lever up to shift. They all had buttons that had to be depressed to move the shift lever. You could just slap down and up on the lever and it would lock each shift. Pretty cool.

Everyone always asked if that was a 4 wheel drive system.

 

and there was no clutch pedal for that as well, correct? and does it have to automatic feature like the "hers" in the his and hers shifter

 

Drove them, rode them, fixed them, trained crews for them, donated alot of blood to them.
It's what I've been doing since I was 18 and I'll be turning 38 in September.
Best job in the world.

 

What rank/rate are you? and in what part or the armed forces, or are you scivilian?

Sounds like fun

 

Yea, for automatic and when you pull the 1st lever back to Drive it would function like an automatic.

 

Civil Service now, did 7 years active Navy, got out after the first Gulf War, 10years working for the company that built the LCAC, and the past 3years as the onsite HM&E engineer.

 

Navy all the way! I work at the USNA giving the new mids their uniforms. Hope to join the academy in my future.

 

Any other cool things hurst made?

 

They also made wheels. They looked kinda like Cragar S/S mags. I think the famous "HurstHemi Under Glass" rear-engine Barracuda had them. Don't know if they were widely available or special edition. That's before my time, but I've seen them a couple of times.