And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
How sweet. I miss that chrome emergency brake "engage/release" to the left of the steering column. Push-button gear select too. My 54 Buick had a column mounted gear selector with "R" reverse all the way down. Trouble was many people transitioning from 3-speed manual slammed the shift down like they were going into 1st and gunned the engine.
With the 1st comment, that brought back a LMAO memory! I had been drag-racing(street-wise) with my Ford product(in the '50's) where you had to pull down to get the a/t into low gear. Well, I had borrowed my dad's Chev for the day and had got into a street-drag situation @ the light. OK, pull the handle down and with the green light floor it....only to go backwards!!! TG...nobody behind me! Still LMAO!...
A late-'50s Chrysler Corporation effort, probably a De Soto - immediately identifiable by the push-button transmission.
The "Forward Look" logo, seen here on the glove compartment door, was a common reference among comics to Jayne Mansfield, Anita Ekberg and other representatives of the sweater industry.
How sweet. I miss that chrome emergency brake "engage/release" to the left of the steering column. Push-button gear select too. My 54 Buick had a column mounted gear selector with "R" reverse all the way down. Trouble was many people transitioning from 3-speed manual slammed the shift down like they were going into 1st and gunned the engine.
ReplyDeleteWith the 1st comment, that brought back a LMAO memory!
ReplyDeleteI had been drag-racing(street-wise) with my Ford product(in the '50's) where you had to pull down to get the a/t into low gear. Well, I had borrowed my dad's Chev for the day and had got into a street-drag situation @ the light. OK, pull the handle down and with the green light floor it....only to go backwards!!! TG...nobody behind me! Still LMAO!...
A push-button-shiften DeSoto or somesuch sister?
ReplyDeleteHad a Rambler with a push button transmission.
DeleteShifted, of course, not shiften.
ReplyDeleteA late-'50s Chrysler Corporation effort, probably a De Soto - immediately identifiable by the push-button transmission.
ReplyDeleteThe "Forward Look" logo, seen here on the glove compartment door, was a common reference among comics to Jayne Mansfield, Anita Ekberg and other representatives of the sweater industry.
Late 50's would have had a more-dished safety steering wheel.
DeleteMy mom had a '57 Plymouth that looked just like that; I got my driver's license in that car. The pushbutton shifters debuted in '56, so....Late '50s.
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