Do you remember cars that shifted by pushing buttons on the dash?? I think I do. (or else I'm in the Twilight Zone)
2007-08-30 13:34:57 · 23 answers · asked by Wet Doggie 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Wow! You guys got all kinds of info. Everything I ever wanted to know about push buttons. Thanks...I knew I could count on yas.
2007-08-30 13:51:47 · update #1
DeSoto in the 50's had push-button on dash.
To go way back. '33 Terraplane had a bar (like a miniature baseball bat coming off the steering col. (like today) that had a little flip switch (like a household light switch) to change gears.
That was probably the forerunner of push button shifting.
It also had a knob in the middle of the dash that said "free wheeling".
It free-weeled alright. I think it disengaged the drive line somehow. I don't remember for sure.
2007-08-30 13:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by shrdlu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Push buttons in the middle of the steering wheel.
Seems like Chrysler cars.......Dodge, I think, Or more likely, Desoto.
Also recall Shift on the dash, a lever sticking out of the dash.
Also Chrysler.
Do you remember the swing away steering wheel in T-birds?
How about the free wheeling feature in standard shift cars in the 40s............Fluid drive in Chryslers with standard shift.
2007-08-30 13:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Chrysler Corporation cars of the late 1950's and early 1960's had push-button transmissions, including DeSotos, Dodges, and some Chrysler models.
Ford Motor Company's ill-fated Edsel also had its push-button transmission with the buttons mounted in the center of the steering wheel. -RKO- 08/30/07
2007-08-30 13:43:28 · answer #3 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and they're baaaaacccccckkkk.
Our neighbors down the street (the other family on the street with six kids) had a '53 Chrysler with the pushbuttons. It even had electric windows!
My hubby said his folks had a Plymouth with pushbutton shift.
I once owned a '52 Chevy (it was green and the kids called it the "watermelon") that you had to turn the key in the switch and then push the starter to power it up.
Now I drive a station wagon that can switch from automatic to manual shift.
2007-08-30 19:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by felines 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the first new car we got
after I was married was a
push button gear shift.
I think it was a Plymouth and
was called Dynashift or something like that.
I don't know why it never
hung around, but that model
was the only one made I think. That was in '54.
2007-08-31 16:37:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never had one,but my sons' first car was a Dodge(can't remember the year) and it had push buttons on the dash, it took him a while to get used to it.
2007-08-30 16:46:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend in collesge had a 1964 Plymouth Valiant V8 with an slushbox that sported pushbuttons on the dashboard to the left of the steering wheel. They went 1-2-D-N-R-P...I believe.
2007-08-30 23:30:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember them around the 50's. I think they were made by Chrysler for Plymouth and Dodge cars.
2007-08-30 13:39:44 · answer #8 · answered by Joseph F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the shifting but my grandpa had one you had to push a button to start it. I was really young.
2007-08-30 14:08:28 · answer #9 · answered by Glenda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Never drove one. They were on a lot of Chryslers from the very early 60s. Apparently not a great set-up. At least it never went far.
2007-08-30 13:42:32 · answer #10 · answered by Robert K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋