Wednesday, August 10, 2022

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25 comments:

  1. 1962-65ish MoPar B-Body setup?

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  2. Dad's Valiant. We christened it the "Pushbutton Dragster"...

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  3. And my Mom and Dad's '64 Dodge Dart. If I remember right it had a slant six. All kinds of room under the hood. Changing plugs would be a 5 minute job, no swearing required.
    Ah, the good old days.

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    1. a workhorse, to be sure.

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    2. I guess that is why there's no park?

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    3. See the chrome lever to the left of the buttons? Says "PARK" on the knob.

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  4. Like my gramma's Desoto. I rented a pickup truck last year with pushbutton (I gotta say it) tranny and liked it. A pickup is about the only vehicle one can stretch out and drive in these days.

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  5. My 1963 plymouth fury ex hiway patrol car. Loved it. If the battery was dead, you could pull it to start it. Only kind of automatic transmission that would do that I think.

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    1. Before the '64 Dart my dad had a '61 Dodge Polara. It was black with a white top. If you saw it coming at you you'd think it was a CHP cruiser.
      https://www.reddit.com/r/policeporn/comments/2efviz/california_highway_patrol_1961_dodge_polara/
      Dad and us kids used to have a blast watching cars coming towards us on a two lane highway hit the brakes thinking we were The Man. Good times.

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    2. Some time in the early 60's they stopped putting a rear pump in automatic transmissions. Early cars could be bump-started, but not later ones.

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    3. We push started a 58 Mercury in 1968. Rotten muffler and the car started as a loud explosion. Wasnt expecting that!

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  6. mom had a '59 dodge w/ pushbuttons. 2 tone PINK. what i wouldn't give to have it now!

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  7. Aside from being a great engine, lineage of the Slant-6 225 was being half of a 426ci. A 6-cylinder Hemi!
    If I'm not greatly mistaken, GM did a similar application with '62-'63 Nova using half a 283ci and '63 Pontiac Tempest using half a 389ci. I had a Tempest, 4cyl/4-barrel Rochester.
    And Chrysler used mash-buttons, not pushbuttons!

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    1. I had one of those Tempests, it was a V-4 engine. I bought it used for $35.

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  8. Had this on my ‘64 Dodge 330 slant 6. Best 6 cyl ever made.

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  9. I learned to drive in a '64 Dodge 440. That was the body style, not the engine. The engine was one of the big block 318's.

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    1. 318 ci engines were a small block. Not sure it was available in '64. There was an older 315 engine, not sure what block size it was. It may have been some type of hemi.
      318 was a wedge head design. Dad had a ski boat with this engine, with 4 bbl carb. 16-17 ft long, velvet touch v-drive? Think it was rated at 225 hp. Originally designed to tow a dozen skiers at a FL show, Cypress Gardens, I think. By the time you got the throttle fully open it was on step at ~55mph. Would turn on a dime, banked over like a fighter plane. Neat boat!

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  10. My 1st car 63 dodge polara w/ 318 engine. Push button trannie. Had to add a choke & spray starting fluid every morning. Fun car for a kid. Flawtha.

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  11. Grandmother had one. I remember the gas station attendents would check the oil and stare. 413 with a cross ram. The little old Lady from Kansas City like cars that "jumped when you twisted thier tail"

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  12. God mine was a 62 Chrysler New Yorker. Steel and either 19 or 21 feet long. Must’ve been 19. No park. Think you put in neutral and pushed the emergency break. Got mad at it one night a swung down on it w/a 22 or 24 oz. Waffle headed framing hammer I used in concrete work

    It put an indentation about an 1/8 inch deep and exactly the size of the face. If I had struck a rig from 2022 w/w that hammer I might have gone through to the asphalt.

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  13. 17 years old, coming down a hill in Colorado towing a trailer at night and accidently hit the 1st gear button instead of 2nd. Boy was dad mad. But no harm done.

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  14. 1964 Dodge Dart 6 cylinder with factory air. My first car. Blew the engine on I74 in Illinois. Popped the hood and it was glowing red hot. I guess 85 mph was just to much for her to take in 1978.

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