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I noticed on the '69 Acadian brochure that Carl S. has advertised elsewhere on the site, they refer to a third shift pattern that appears to be 2-speed, labelled as "Torque Drive".  How is that different than the regular old Powerglide?

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You had to manually shift from 1st to Hi or vice versa as it had no valve body or solenoids. aka shiftless automatic smile



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Yup,  was basicly a powerglide with 1/2 the parts removed.  it would downshift, but you had to manually upshift.  I have an original GM JamHandy filmstrip from 1969 that explains the whole thing in incredible detail as well as a small salesmans handbook. 



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I had a couple many years ago and don't remember that Torque Drive would down shift:

In 1969 it was advertised "with clutchless 2-speed manual shifting"

I also had a 1969 Maverick with a clutchles 3 speed manual shifting automatic.

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I would suspect they'd be really reliable with less parts?

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GLHS60 wrote:

I had a couple many years ago and don't remember that Torque Drive would down shift:

In 1969 it was advertised "with clutchless 2-speed manual shifting"

I also had a 1969 Maverick with a clutchles 3 speed manual shifting automatic.

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Randy

 You are probably right,  i would have to watch the filmstrip and play the matching record again



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There was one in a 71 or 72 6 cylinder Nova that a buddy had a few years ago.   It's basically a Powerglide with some parts missing.  It probably cost GM more to make these manual shift Powerglides than to just make a Powerglide.



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Thanks guys, I don't think I've ever seen one before, or if I did I didn't notice it.  Definitely haven't owned one.

Wonder how many were sold, and even moreso how many are still around that weren't swapped out at some point?



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The Torque Drive was introduced mid-year 1968.  It came on the following cars:

 

1968 six cylinder Camaro

1968 six cylinder Nova & Acadian (+ 4 cyl US Nova)

 

1969 six cylinder Camaro

1969 six cylinder Nova & Acadian (+ 4 cyl US Nova)

 

1970 six cylinder Nova & Acadian (+ 4 cyl US Nova)

 

1971 six cylinder Nova & Acadian

1971 Vega

 

 

All the above were column-shift only except the Vega.

 



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