As your car is a 1960 Imperial, the transmission is a cast-iron case Torqueflite. The "older guy" is not that old, I guess, as all cast-iron Torqueflites. (made 1956-61) did not have a park position. Did he make any comments about the parking brake on the drievshaft? Or does he know what that contraption is. If the Torqueflire transmission has a park position, then it does not have the driveshaft, and vice versa. And if it has a driveshaft brake it has no park position, which is also vice versa. The first Torqueflite with z park position was the A904 for the Valiant (but not the A904 for the Plymouth and Dodge Dart). In 1962 came the aluminum case A727 with park position for the Plymouth and Dodge Dart (they also adopted the Valiant A904 that year), The A727 for the Dodge 880, Chrysler and Imperial hung onto the no park position, emergnecy brake on the driveshaft and Lockheed brakes one last year. In 1963 they got the A727 with park position and the emergency brake moved to the rear wheels on the new Bendix-made brakes. I think you need to find a transmission man that either older or more knowledgeable about early Mopar automatic transmissions. Bill Vancouver, BC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donn Reese" <DReese@xxxxxxxx> To: "Imperial mailing list (E-mail)" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:05 PM Subject: IML: Strange tranny conversation I need to get the transmission on my '60 rebuilt since it only goes in reverse. My first choice shop won't touch it and referred me to an older guy's shop. I just got into an odd argument with him where he was adamant that my transmission has Park and said "I've never seen a transmission without Park". So now that the "expert" has put a seed of doubt in my mind I just want to double check that I'm right, there is no true "park" on these cars until 1963-64? I've been looking on the repair pages but they don't say explicitly one way or the other.....at least not in the fifteen minutes I've spent looking. Should I be looking for another repair shop? Donn 1960 Custom 4-door hardtop ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm