That's just a standard racing gear box pattern.  Early Porsches had them as
well.

Racing IH!

On 10/11/02 11:57 AM, "David Brodbeck" <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG> wrote:

> 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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