my drivers ed car had push button tranny, a plymouth 63 or 64, gas pedal release and brake on the passenger side too!, one girl also ran into the school building, it shook the teacher up pretty bad
Posted by Duff at 7:30 pm (PDT) on Mon September 3, 2012
GlenEllyn - I suspect it was the latter; push-button meant modern. See the "Push-button plumbing" item in the Household Items gallery.
Posted by Alan at 6:45 pm (PDT) on Mon September 3, 2012
Everything old is new again! The 2013 Lincoln MKZ has a push button transmission on the instrument panel. Suddenly it's 1956!
It was The Rambler Classic that had the push buttons, not the Rambler American.
Do you ever wonder what the thinking was behind designing push-button transmissions? Did they think it was good to get the gear-shift out of the way? Or was it just that technology was moving us to a push-button world like the Jetsons?
As a teens my friend and I were asked by partying adults to drive to the store for mix in her uncle's push button automatic. We got in it and laughed ourselves silly trying to figure out how to change gears. Even after it was pointed out by the uncle, we laughed to the store and back.
I had a '63 Chrysler Newport 2 door with the buttons of the dash.. This year they moved the mirror off the dash and back where it belonged.. on the windsheild! I believe the '63 Rambler Americana (?) had those buttons on the dash as well.
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It was The Rambler Classic that had the push buttons, not the Rambler American.
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