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Wish I could drive as well as this guy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...ute-car-escapes-traffic-by-driving-in-reverse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...ute-car-escapes-traffic-by-driving-in-reverse
I’ve done 30 mph in reverse in. 3.0 Vauxhall Senator back in the 1990’s and yes the speedo still works as it’s electronic, however I was trained to do it, doing it ad hoc you can easily go out of control in reverse. The old Austin Gypsy which the army used at one point could go as fast in reverse as it could going forward, apparently the troops thought it great fun to drive forward get up to speed and select the reversing box to the sound of tyres screeching on the tarmac with clouds of smoke. Many spent the night in the guardhouse awaiting regiment discipline under the careful eye of the RSM, which meant a real beasting and being called many Anglo Saxon short descriptive metaphors of a colourful nature. The Gypsy was a fwd jeep like vehicle for infoHaha That's impressive!
How fast can you actually go in reverse...
The Daimler Ferret scout car could do it - we had one in our MV section ACF We also had an Austin Champ too and it had had the same idea. it was a reverser in the rear axle controlled by a lever in the cockpit so you got all the gears from the gearbox in both forward and reverse. Of course the earlier Daf Variomatics could do it too until they fitted a blocker on the later, especially Volvo badged, vehicles. I know for sure as I worked for a DAF agency for several years. I tried it too, but wouldn't recommend it. Once you get any sort of real speed up it's devilishly difficult to stop the car spinning out, you have to keep it absolutely dead straight. Did the transmission survive these hooligan's antics Retiree?I’ve done 30 mph in reverse in. 3.0 Vauxhall Senator back in the 1990’s and yes the speedo still works as it’s electronic, however I was trained to do it, doing it ad hoc you can easily go out of control in reverse. The old Austin Gypsy which the army used at one point could go as fast in reverse as it could going forward, apparently the troops thought it great fun to drive forward get up to speed and select the reversing box to the sound of tyres screeching on the tarmac with clouds of smoke. Many spent the night in the guardhouse awaiting regiment discipline under the careful eye of the RSM, which meant a real beasting and being called many Anglo Saxon short descriptive metaphors of a colourful nature. The Gypsy was a fwd jeep like vehicle for info