On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, westydriver wrote:

> how many with military experience in the old duece and a halfs.  they
> had a rather strange shift pattern with normal positions for 3rd and
> 4th switched.  deploy for a couple months of heavy time in one of those
> get back to home station and wonder what the fff is wrong with your
> transmission, not to mention almost punching my clutch pedal through
> the floor on the first shift.

No, but I did once drive a 1960's International Harvester 2-ton truck with
an odd shift pattern, something like this if I remember right:

 1  2  4
 |  |  |
-|--|--|
|   |  |
R   3  5

I embarassed myself by trying to go straight from 1st to 3rd, of course.
Didn't help that it had a two-speed rear end that unbeknownst to me was in
high range.

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