My dad had Chryslers from 1950, with Fluid
Drive, on into 1968. He and my mother both drove Chryslers with pushbutton
automatic and never had a problem with any of them.
Vince in Boston
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:42
PM
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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