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Powerglide

Powerglide

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Search complete. 5 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Powerglide".

Sep 19, 2026

speaker_0NARRATOR
15:48
[laughs]
John Clay WolfeHOST
15:48
Steve in Mississippi, '62 Impala SS, 55,000 miles, original, 327 Powerglide, wants 30, had 26 previous.
John Clay WolfeHOST
15:59
What, like, w- when, when you say you had 26 grand offered previous, how did that work?
speaker_6AUDIENCE
16:07
Uh, I just got offered 26.
John Clay WolfeHOST
17:40
Pre-K, are you there? Pre-K.
DJ PreKHOST
17:42
Yeah.
John Clay WolfeHOST
17:42
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."
DJ PreKHOST
17:53
No, private.
Dennis BringettGUEST
12:35
And then Chevrolet came up with this new idea in 1949, they called it an automatic transmission.
Dennis BringettGUEST
12:42
So the first one was up here, it's called Power Glide.
Dennis BringettGUEST
12:46
That was a two-speed automatic transmission.
Dennis BringettGUEST
12:48
And of course, we also have signs from the Illinois State Fairgrounds we made for them many years ago.
ChadwickHOST
25:43
Three seconds later.
FrankHOST
25:45
Yeah, I just, I just, yeah, Powerglide.
FrankHOST
25:46
I just, I don't...
FrankHOST
25:47
Oof.
Ed SmithGUEST
6:54
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.
Ed SmithGUEST
7:06
But their Powerglides are, of course it's not, it looks like a Powerglide maybe, but it's not a Powerglide at all.
Ed SmithGUEST
7:14
The shafts are huge.
Ed SmithGUEST
7:16
the torque of the input shafts and the homemade valve bodies in them and stuff, but still a two-speed transmission.

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