Met this guy last summer @ Santa Pod raceway with a flawless black pro-street ’57 Chevy Belair. The car was detailed to the nines. You could tell he lived and breathed every billet bit of it. He showed me the Lenco drag gearbox – probably the toughest, most distinct and complicated manual transmissions you’ve laid eyes on. Every lever is a gear. No H-gate. Slam one lever, then move to the next, then the next and so on. Each gear has its own bellhousing, which is bolted in series to the next. Lencos can be built up to five speeds, using manual or air shift. This one will handle about 3000 bhp. And that’s the point of it. Besides looking so damn macho, it’s built to withstand masses of torque and be maintained/rebuilt without too much hassle.
Not sure how it would behave on Southend sea front in stop-start traffic, but it doesn’t really matter. A tranny doesn’t get more hardcore than this. You can keep your DSG, Tiptronic, paddle-shifts and H-gates.
