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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:14:55 PM EDT
Back in the day I inherited a 1964 Dodge 440 that belonged to my Dad's uncle that had push button drive. Thought that this was coolest thing ever.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:16:48 PM EDT
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Well, its back. I have it on my 2021 Tahoe.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:20:28 PM EDT
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What's the little slider button on the right for?
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:21:23 PM EDT
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Yeah, my younger brother had a late 60s Dodge with push button trans.
Went from 50 to 0 when a drunk woman ran a stop sign in a Toyota Tercel wagon. I went out the windshield. She got two broken legs, pinned tight against the driver's door, screaming, I WASN'T DRIVING!!! On suspended license and drunk as shit. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:22:02 PM EDT
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My dads wrecker just had a button on the floor you stepped on, no key
Sorry, I read push start for some reason |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:23:05 PM EDT
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That park lever was way too easy to flip down.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:25:27 PM EDT
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Mom had a 1958 Plymouth with push button tranny. Wife has a new 2020 Lincoln Aviator with a push button tranny.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:26:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the little slider button on the right for? lever on the left is for park. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:27:40 PM EDT
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2015 was the early days for Acura. Now they are all push button.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:28:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lever on the left is for park. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What's the little slider button on the right for? lever on the left is for park. I think he was asking about the modern Tahoe slider, I am curious as well |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:29:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the little slider button on the right for? Park |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:31:44 PM EDT
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Remember, “R” is for Race!
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:31:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mom had a 1958 Plymouth with push button tranny. Wife has a new 2020 Lincoln Aviator with a push button tranny. I had two 57s and a 58. All had push button. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:32:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:33:42 PM EDT
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I had a '62 Dodge so you could push start it by getting up to about 20 to 30 MPH, turn the key, push the button and it started.
Don't try that with this new push button stuff. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:34:22 PM EDT
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I learned to drive in a 64 Polara with a 6 cylinder engine.
Same color as this car -  |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:35:56 PM EDT
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Yep. Back in high school I drove my friends 1956 Chrysler New Yorker a few times.
It also had a vacuum tube radio with auto tune that was operated by tapping a push button on the floor (not the high beam switch) with your foot to change the station. It was the first vehicle that I was in that reached 100mph - I'm surprised I ever made it out of my younger years alive.... Here's an internet grab of the interior, same color and everything.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:37:07 PM EDT
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We had a 1963 Chrysler with buttons. It got so it would drive off in Neutral unless you put on the "emergency brake.". I can remember my mom chasing it across the field.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:37:26 PM EDT
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Dad had a 58 Desoto.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:37:27 PM EDT
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First car was a '55 Plymouth Savoy with the buttons. No park! Had to use the parking brake.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:40:12 PM EDT
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My Lincoln MKZ had it, I loved it. Shifters are a waste of space.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 10:40:27 PM EDT
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I had a 62 Plymouth Valiant with push button drive. Also it had the craziest carb on an otherwise great slant six.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:30:55 PM EDT
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A neighbor had one. He would power brake and do a stationary tire burnout.
He would then push the reverse button and it would instantly burn out in the other direction... then again to drive. etc... etc... etc. Everyone told him he was going to blow the transmission. That never happened. However the rear differential eventually failed. That transmission was bullet proof! |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:42:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the little slider button on the right for? The one on the left is Park. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:49:04 PM EDT
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I don’t remember the old days but I remember the now days.
I really like not having a shifter in the way.  |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:49:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, its back. I have it on my 2021 Tahoe. https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F1576088471496-2021-chevrolet-tahoe-017.jpg?quality=60 That makes so much more sense then the giant dildo in every car. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:52:27 PM EDT
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my Grandmother had one..... Thought it was really cool as a kid
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:56:41 PM EDT
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My first car was a 1963 Dodge 330 with push button drive. Handed down from my parents when they got a new car.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:56:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, its back. I have it on my 2021 Tahoe. https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F1576088471496-2021-chevrolet-tahoe-017.jpg?quality=60 My 2020 Ridgeline has a pushbutton shifter. It doesn't bother me, although there is a 2-3 second delay shifting it from R to D. Oh well, I like the truck so much that this doesn't bother me at all. |
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:59:26 PM EDT
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What’s old is new again.
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Posted: 1/22/2021 11:59:32 PM EDT
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Floor ones were high beams, weren't they?
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:00:11 AM EDT
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Quoted: Back in the day I inherited a 1964 Dodge 440 that belonged to my Dad's uncle that had push button drive. Thought that this was coolest thing ever. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/59159/DSCF0397__1__jpg-1792251.JPG My first cat was a '63 Dodge Dart with the 225 Slant Six. The buttons and park lever were on the right side of the column. Several years later, on a whim, l picked up a '63 440 station wagon. It's controls were on the left side like yours. Fairly ugly grill and front end but a beautiful dash board. |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:01:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the little slider button on the right for? I don’t think it slides. The neutral is push and reverse/drive are pulls and that middle piece sortof supports the assembly and prevents you from trying to pull the neutral off. That’s what it looks like.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:03:16 AM EDT
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A friend of mine had it on a 60’s Nash Rambler he inherited from an Aunt. Buttons on the dashboard.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:03:21 AM EDT
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Column shift master race. So much room in the Yukon you never notice it being there.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:04:05 AM EDT
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Quoted: Back in the day I inherited a 1964 Dodge 440 that belonged to my Dad's uncle that had push button drive. Thought that this was coolest thing ever. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/59159/DSCF0397__1__jpg-1792251.JPG My parents were living in Missouri in the 50’s. Dad took my older brother to go buy a new car. It was a Dodge. Push button drive. Going down a back road just cruising along. The salesman was talking about how great the trans was and even if you put it in reverse at 50, it would just slow then start going backwards. Dad gets up to 50 and ask the salesman about that claim. Guy repeats it. Dad makes sure he’s doing 50 then pushes the Reverse button. Damn near threw my brother from the backseat thru the windshield. The salesman was screaming Holy Hell. Drove the car back to the dealership and bought a different one. That some fool hadn’t tested the trans on. Ed |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:11:23 AM EDT
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We had '63 Plymouth Belvedere 4 door with the shift buttons. Solid car.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:15:46 AM EDT
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I had several PB shifter vehicles back in the early 60's. Can't remember ever having any trouble with them.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:18:54 AM EDT
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High school buddy used to have a '57 Plymouth push button.
I used to love the MOPAR SS race cars with push buttons. |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:28:05 AM EDT
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Designed by an old Mooney engineer?
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:32:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Column shift master race. So much room in the Yukon you never notice it being there. So much cost and mechanical linkage that is unnecessary, you're still just telling the computer what gear to put the transmission in. Do it with $1 worth of backlit switches vs multiple dollars worth of bent metal, sliding components, pins, gates, etc to enforce a shift pattern and link it to the brake pedal. All of that linkage also can't collapse cleanly during a crash, decreasing the safety of the vehicle. Kharn |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:35:13 AM EDT
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The only car I've ever seen with a push button drive belonged to a neighbor when I was young. IIRC, it was a Chrysler New Yorker, but I have no idea what year.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:47:46 AM EDT
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We had a 61 Dodge Pioneer with it. I recall my mom getting stuck at a toll booth, she had turned off the engine and couldn't restart it. The toll booth attendant was mystified. She forgot you had to push the neutral button.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:48:34 AM EDT
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I traded a CB350 Honda to a guy for a 1960 Dodge Matador with a 361 4bbl, and a push button transmission when I was 14.
My parents were not pleased at all when I drove it home and parked it in their driveway....it would leak about a quart of oil/transmission fluid every other day..... I'd fire it up, and play with the power windows and radio.....and drive it around the neighborhood when they weren't home....took the tag off our boat trailer and put it on the back ....... I even had everything I needed circled in the JC Whitney catalog to "fix it up" One day I came home from school, and it was gone...... my dad gave me 250.00 and told me to never do anything like that again. The oil stains on the driveway at our old house are still visible via satellite imagery Like this.....but red/white 
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Posted: 1/23/2021 12:53:26 AM EDT
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A weird military vehicle I dealt with had a pushbutton 727.
Chrysler XM-410. Had a mid mount 361 V8, 4 wheel steering, and 8 wheel drive, with independent suspension. |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:09:16 AM EDT
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Known as: Trash on the dash.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:15:42 AM EDT
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Yep drove a few cars like that
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:40:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dad had a 58 Desoto. Mine also. Push button. Steering wheel had one of those knob things, could turn that wheel faster than shit when needed |
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:45:52 AM EDT
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There were lots of die cast parts in and on those 1960s and earlier cars; that was a big industry w/good wages back then. Now it's all plastic w/not so good wages.
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:47:56 AM EDT
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We called it jukebox drive
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Posted: 1/23/2021 1:54:46 AM EDT
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Quoted: Back in the day I inherited a 1964 Dodge 440 that belonged to my Dad's uncle that had push button drive. Thought that this was coolest thing ever. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/59159/DSCF0397__1__jpg-1792251.JPG |
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