\\Hone-O-Drive Unit ?//

[1972coronet]

Some time soon enough here, I'm going to be building the R-M 1970 Chevelle Baldwin-Motion SS-454 (hold the wild decals, except for maybe the bonnet) and am wanting to add a Hone-O-Drive to it.
Oddly (or not) this version of the kit includes not only a reverse-lockout lever, but the "one-armed-bandit" shifter for the Hone-O... but no accompanying Hone-O gear-splitter [?!?] 

Looking for recommendations here -- does anyone make one of these gear boxes? If not, what offering would be close enough (e.g., rear portion of a kit's manual gear box)?

Thanks in advance.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Good question.

Is the car you're modeling s'posed to have the unit mounted to the diff, or stand-alone?

A quick search leads me to believe it's this one (the text sites Motion Performance), which mounts on its own, with shortened driveshafts to and from it.

https://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/hone-o-drive-overdrive-looks-as-good-as-new/

If that's the correct unit for your build, it looks like a fairly easy scratch-built endeavor.

But I am by no means "expert" on these things.

EDIT: Yup. Found a ref siting the Model 300, shown above, as the one installed by Baldwin Motion

EDIT 2: More info here:   http://www.stangerssite.com/honeodrive.html

Edited July 7, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[iBorg]

Wow, that's a blast from the past. I remember the Baldwin Motion Phase One ads.....about 1972. Here's an article to help flash back some memories: https://www.motortrend.com/features/1905-50th-anniversary-of-the-baldwin-motion-ss-427-phase-iii-supercars/

[1972coronet]

18 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Found a ref siting the Model 300, shown above, as the one installed by Baldwin Motion

Thanks much! I've long pondered which unit Motion employed -- I'd assumed it was the unit which included the differential gearbox. 

Hone-O-Drive was about a mile away from where I grew up. I used to see their shop on Washington Blvd. all of the time when I was young, playing little attention to it other than its interesting business name (and a handful of pickups with huge campers on them, ostensibly having one of the overdrive units installed -- this was in the seventies).

My scratch building skills have atrophied, unfortunately (arthritis and age-related vision blurring). I'll perhaps whittle something out of an existing kit part (perhaps one of the generic MPC manual transmissions would suffice -- or the B&M Hydro-Stick from the AMT parts pack).

Thanks for your reply and the info therein.

[1972coronet]

17 hours ago, iBorg said:

I remember the Baldwin Motion Phase One ads.....about 1972.

I'm keen on the 1972 catalogue's cover art (see image). I want to have that image on a shirt -- I even got the okay from Martyn Schorr and Joel Rosen to use that illustration. 

[Jack L]

Superbird McMonte  Dominick Gerace did one at one time