[DeTomaso] ZF-can you imagine?

[Kerry Maguire]

Can you imagine the difficulties a GT40 Marketing Team would have trying to sell a high performance car with a transmission that came out of a steam roller? How could you possibly put a positive spin on that?
 
On the other hand, the steam roller peeps can use a Saab car commercial type spin:
 
"Fendt rollers-built from Lemans racers"
 
In a message dated 3/6/09 6 48 39, cengles at cox.net <http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso>  writes:


> 
> Tell me if this is right:
> 
>  The ZF was not originally designed for agricultural nor road building 
> machine purposes. It was designed specifically for the GT40 and then later 
> modified for Fendt rollers. Racing came first and the mundane application came 
> second.
> 

That is my belief, yes.   The ZF manual supports this indirectly in that the 
description of the roller doesn't appear until the Dash-2 manual came out, 
i.e. 1971-ish.

Mike

 
 
Regards,
 
Kerry M. Maguire