33IMP said

Garlits was running an experimental two speed, that he claimed was a reverser. (Everybody was direct drive at the time, and the trans made Big Daddy two tenths faster). Prudhomme figured it out and called the guy Garlits got the two speed from, and Snake ended up with the first production Lenco.
Garlits experimented with his own two speed, based on a torqueflite, and when pressed for time to make call for a round, didn't have time to fill the trans properly. Sprag broke, drum broke, car literally sawed in half, all toes on one foot gone, couple broken bones. He restored the car many years later (swamp rat

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