69 Corvette w/ 3 speed manual.

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by TimG

I heard last week that the 3 speed in the corvettes did not have a synchronized first gear. You had to come to a complete stop before you could put the car in first. Can anyone confirm that?

I had a friend, Bob Olson from Pro Motor Engineering (formally Motor Sport Research), that had an early production 1969 327/300 that had a 3 speed and it was fully syncronized. He was the second owner and it was a numbers matching 10,000 mile car when he bought it.

Bill