RE: IML: push button automatics
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RE: IML: push button automatics



My '57 Chrysler Saratoga, and my '61 Dodge Pioneer both have the push button transmission selector. Never had a problem with them, but when I was in high school back in the late sixties I did have a problem with a '61 Dodge Phoenix convertible. The push button selector wasn't working right. Took the car to a local Chrysler dealer, and he made the necessary repair.

 

Rich Woolf

'66 Crown

'73 LeBaron

'75 LeBaron

 

-----Original Message-----
From: TomChoice [mailto:tcsibor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:21 PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: IML: push button automatics

 

I have been driving various push button automatics since I was 16 - I am now 56. Never had a problem with one yet :-)

 

Tom

 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of henry ford
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:42 PM
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: push button automatics

I thought I should ask the members here to get any answers, while I was in the local autozone a couple of people overheard me asking about the parts I ordered for a 1959 imperial, one other customer that was standing in line behind me asked me if it was a pushbutton auto, and I said yes, he and another guy started telling me about all the problems they had with pushbuttons,  I'm happy to hear none of you have had this problem. as I like the concept of the pushbuttons , and not havin a big ugly stick on the side of the colmn of my car..

John Harvey <50scars@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I never saw anyone who had trouble with push button automatics. I heard rumors, but never actually knew anyone who had problems.  This is from the day they were new, to where you could buy the car for $50 if it ran good, and the floor was still good enough that the seat didn't rock, to the collector cars they now are.  I had 57 and 58 Mercurys, 58 Edsil, 56-64 Chrysler products with them, NEVER HAD PROBLEMS.  With the Mercury and Edsils, that was about the only parts that were trouble free.  Chrysler didn't stop using them because of problems, they stopped because the US Government mandated a standard automatic transmission selector starting 1955.  GM had to redesign their transmissions to put the R between P and N, instead of all the way to the bottom where it had been from day one.

 

JOhn


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