On Dec 12, 9:42 am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:21:03 GMT, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:16:03 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

Maybe it was a comet.. .which one did Nader screw with, that was it I
think.. hey, I was probably 6-7 yo when I rode in that car but it was
push button, on the dash, that I remember clearly..

Corvair had a little lever on the dash. Push button automatics were a
Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth (and probably Desoto) feature.

I think Nash had one too. A friend's dad had a Metropolitan, but I
never went near it. Everybody sort of looked at it with a sense of
revulsion. Go figure. Well, it was about 1962.
My dad had a '57 Imperial, fist push-button I saw.
Hey, wait. I think a buddy's dad had a Nash that we stole a couple
times late at night. Fat Phil was his name. We would push it around
the corner before starting it. Fat Phil showed us how smart the car
was, and how indestructible, by getting it up to about 30, then
pushing the reverse button. It would suddenly slow down, make a few
harsh noises, then stop. Personally, I didn't care for those sounds.
I preferred the noise made by cutting the ignition on a big block at
speed, letting it suck some gas into the exhaust, then turning the key
back on. BLAAMM! Yeah, my friends were real punks. Me too.
In the Navy, while hitchhiking home to Chicago or to NYC from Norfolk
I caught some interesting rides. One in a Studebaker Lark with a V8,
another in an Avanti. Both were being currently produced. I never
was a car fanatic, but the Army guy going home with his wife was
really proud of his Lark, and my NYC buddy was tickled when we got a
ride in the Avanti, even more so when the owner let him drive it for a
spell.
A cabin mate of mine in the Merchant Marine had the same year/model
Aston-Martin as the one used in one of the James Bond movies, and
I drove it for a while on a Toledo-Detroit excursion. Very "touchy"
steering, but of course my normal ride then was a '64 Olds 88.
Moneywise, he had about 4 of those in the Aston-Martin engine alone.

--Vic

Didn't a certian model of Edsel have pus-hutton trans located in the
middle of the steering wheel? i know, somebody did...