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My 1964 Dodge Polara had a push button transmission worked great back in 1971, when my grandfather gave me the car.
My first car was a 1963 Plymouth with the push button PowerFlite transmission on the left of the dash, with pull down/up lever for park. Chrysler used that feature for at least 8-10 years.
The beauty of the old push button shift mechanism was that it was (other than the light built in) purely mechanical. A push-pull cable was attached to the valve body inside the transmission that moved a spool valve to direct the oil flow.
Simple, easy to adjust, and very nearly idiot proof (nothing can ever be truly idiot proof, idiots are simply too ingenious).
My first car was a 1963 Plymouth with the push button PowerFlite transmission on the left of the dash, with pull down/up lever for park. Chrysler used that feature for at least 8-10 years.
My first car was a 1963 Plymouth with the push button PowerFlite transmission on the left of the dash, with pull down/up lever for park. Chrysler used that feature for at least 8-10 years.
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Originally Posted by Fleet
Powerflite or Torqueflite?
Chrysler used push buttons from 1956 to 1964.
I think the 1961 model year was the last year for Powerflite.
My grandparents had a 1963 Dodge 330 (derivative of the Plymouth Savoy). Base trim level with the slant six engine, but it had the 3-speed pushbutton Torqueflite. Buttons were in a horizontal row to the left of the steering column, with the park lever just below the buttons.
And get this--it even had factory installed Airtemp air conditioning! The climate controls were also operated by pushbuttons to the right of the steering column, and were symmetrical with the transmission buttons on the left, down to the slide lever below them for the air temperature that matched the parking lever on the left side.
I had an uncle that drove Chrysler and Dodge products exclusively. I remember several of those cars having the push button gear selection. As far as I knew, he never had one problem with any of them.
I dunno. I’ve lived through a car with a broken clutch cable. I don’t think the knob in my Ram is going to grenade the 8-speed in it.
The shifter in my car isn’t going to grenade the transmission in it either. And in 30 years of driving I have yet to replace a shifter much less a clutch cable. My standard shift truck...still on the original clutch and cable at 160,000 miles. To me it’s just adding something more complicated for absolutely no reason at all.
And something electronic that controls your vehicles ability to function placed on a center console. Right next to the cup holder for a drink.
The shifter in my car isn’t going to grenade the transmission in it either. And in 30 years of driving I have yet to replace a shifter much less a clutch cable. My standard shift truck...still on the original clutch and cable at 160,000 miles. To me it’s just adding something more complicated for absolutely no reason at all. And something electronic that controls your vehicles ability to function placed on a center console. Right next to the cup holder for a drink.
We've been putting drinks next right next to an electronic control for about a decade now.....
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