<VV> Push Button Gear Selection

[Marc Marcoulides]

Packard also had a push button automatic


  The Plymouth push-button gear selector functioned perfectly for the 13 years I kept the car.  The only time it malfunctioned at all was when my son Jim (displaying an early interest in automotive technology)  managed to push TWO of the buttons at the same time and jammed both of them in together.  (I believe he was 5 or 6 years old at the time)  I solved the problem by simply removing the cover off the selector box and working the buttons free.
>    I still think that the push-button gear selector is the BEST way to control an automatic transmission.  Here's what it looked like on my 58 Plymouth:
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>Thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite cars and the only 8-cylinder I ever owned.  Largest engine, too (318 cu.in.)
>    Frank Burkhard
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>After 65 - no more pushbuttons for Chrysler. Aspen/Volares were way after  
>that. Edsel had the pushbuttons in the steering wheel.
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>> Say what you will about those volares and  those aspens, but remember 
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>> dodges, plymouths, and chryslers from  the 60's all had the coolest thing
>> PUSH BUTTON TRANMISSION!  How  come nobody makes those anymore?
>> Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE  Smartphone
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