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Sep 19, 2026
#572 John Clay Wolfe Show 09.19.26
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15:48speaker_0NARRATOR
[laughs]
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15:48John Clay WolfeHOST
Steve in Mississippi, '62 Impala SS, 55,000 miles, original, 327 Powerglide, wants 30, had 26 previous.
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15:59John Clay WolfeHOST
What, like, w- when, when you say you had 26 grand offered previous, how did that work?
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16:07speaker_6AUDIENCE
Uh, I just got offered 26.
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17:40John Clay WolfeHOST
Pre-K, are you there? Pre-K.
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17:42DJ PreKHOST
Yeah.
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17:42John Clay WolfeHOST
I'm talking to Jay, and in your notes, you put, "'62 Impala SS, 55,000 miles, original 327 Powerglide, wants 30, had 26,000 previous."
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17:53DJ PreKHOST
No, private.
Route 66 in Illinois: Springfield museum restores old road signs from Mother Road
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12:35Dennis BringettGUEST
And then Chevrolet came up with this new idea in 1949, they called it an automatic transmission.
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12:42Dennis BringettGUEST
So the first one was up here, it's called Power Glide.
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12:46Dennis BringettGUEST
That was a two-speed automatic transmission.
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12:48Dennis BringettGUEST
And of course, we also have signs from the Illinois State Fairgrounds we made for them many years ago.
Episode #242 - Automotive Would You Rather Vol. #7
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25:43ChadwickHOST
Three seconds later.
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25:45FrankHOST
Yeah, I just, I just, yeah, Powerglide.
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25:46FrankHOST
I just, I don't...
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25:47FrankHOST
Oof.
Ask Ed 23 - Transmissions Carbs Cooling - Ed Smith w #BarryT
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6:54Ed SmithGUEST
You know, my friends at Hughes Transmission down the street here, I go down there sometimes to look at some of the things they do to the Turbo 400 now, and they would never do that to a 350.
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7:06Ed SmithGUEST
But their Powerglides are, of course it's not, it looks like a Powerglide maybe, but it's not a Powerglide at all.
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7:14Ed SmithGUEST
The shafts are huge.
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7:16Ed SmithGUEST
the torque of the input shafts and the homemade valve bodies in them and stuff, but still a two-speed transmission.