A Rare Sight These days!

RVTECH · Jul 23, 2021

Not far from where I live!

gryghin · Jul 23, 2021

Hopefully, they have it up and running.

rdb241 · Aug 3, 2021

Edsel with the push button transmision on the dash board............

RVTECH · Aug 3, 2021

rdb241 said:
Edsel with the push button transmision on the dash board.

Actually it was on the steering wheel center.

Some Dodges had it on the dash!

rdb241 · Aug 3, 2021

RVTECH said:
Actually it was on the steering wheel center.

Some Dodges had it on the dash!

The first pic is what you are talking about. The second pic is what I remember as a kid and my Dad's cars.

Mike_M57 · Aug 3, 2021

When I was a kid a next door neighbor had a Chrysler New Yorker that had the pushbuttons on the dash. First one I'd ever seen like that. I don't remember if he ever drove that car, but I'm sure he must have.

Looked like this one, as I recall.

Alexx1401 · Aug 3, 2021

Mike_M57 said:
When I was a kid a next door neighbor had a Chrysler New Yorker that had the pushbuttons on the dash. First one I'd ever seen like that. I don't remember if he ever drove that car, but I'm sure he must have.

Looked like this one, as I recall.

Had a Plymouth with the buttons on the dash when I was a kid. Park was a lever that slid down one side of the buttons. Learned first thing that you had to make sure when you slid that lever it locked. Otherwise after you got out of the car if you had not set the parking brake the damn car would start rolling away

Flopsweat · Aug 5, 2021

Alexx1401 said:
Had a Plymouth with the buttons on the dash when I was a kid. Park was a lever that slid down one side of the buttons. Learned first thing that you had to make sure when you slid that lever it locked. Otherwise after you got out of the car if you had not set the parking brake the damn car would start rolling away

I had a Barracuda that had been engine swapped. Console shifter that just would not adjust properly to hold in Park or Neutral. Reverse was startlingly easy to find by accident. The parking break never really felt solid to me even after adjusting but it seemed to hold fine. I parked on the flat a lot. Or curbed the wheels rather carefully. I put a nice T-handle on the shifter, which it turned out did not help it stay in Neutral at all. But the car wasn't worth anything anyway. So, perfect college car.