While watching this I realized I SAW EVERY ONE OF THOSE MOVIES!!
M’gawd, I’m a cowboy!!!
She was hot…even before the beach movies.
Now I guess I better 'fess up–I didn’t write this, an old school chum sent it to me.
But I lived every moment of this–and then some!!!
And I remember everything on those lists–but I still don’t remember the Pythagorian theory!!!
Thanks Jae, older than dirt 14, also shift lever on the dash board.
I drove a Dodge with the push button transmission on the dash. It didn’t seem to catch on.
Jim, you must have been very young and the car was old.
An innovation that first appeared in 1956, and lasted until 1966, was the push-button transmission. I remember my oldest brother had a Plymouth from the early 60’s that had it.
The pushbutton transmission was available in two incarnations: mechanical (pretty darned reliable) and electrical (extremely unreliable).
Packard introduced it with their 1956 Caribbean. It was the electrical one, and it had problems. If you parked on a steep hill, the shifting motor would lock up trying to get the car out of Park. It would trip a breaker, and you would be stuck. To make matters worse, when Packard’s production ceased that year, the manufacturers of the shifting mechanism destroyed the tooling. Replacement parts became impossible to obtain.
The king of the boneheaded electrical shifters was the Edsel. Not only did the shifter have lots of problems, they mounted the buttons in the middle of the steering wheel! Guess what would would happen when drivers made an emergency move for the horn.
The most reliable shifters were in the Chryslers, Dodges, and Plymouths. They used mecahnical linkage to engage the various gears. In 1956, the Neutral button even started the car! You pushed it all the way in and it would engage the starter motor. A vacuum switch was supposed to disengage the motor contacts while the engine was running, but if it failed, you could grind your starter by pushing the Neutral button too hard.
The pushbuttons were like the Dallas Cowboys: people either loved them or hated them. Afficianados would make sure that the cars they bought had them, building product loyalty for Chrysler Motors.
The pushbutton option never really set the world on fire, though. In 1966 or thereabouts, the government’s General Services Administration declared that any autos for government usage would have either column- or floor-mounted shifters. Chrysler dropped pushbuttons on the spot.
Today, pushbutton transmissions and the strange problems they would have (buttons pushed all the way into the dash assembly weren’t uncommon) are a distant memory. But you can see a 1956 video introducing them to the world at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD4Zpq7L6sY)
:mrgreen:
I had a friend who had a '46 Packard…or maybe it was a Hudson.
You’re driving a stick shift–push a button on the dash and the clutch pedal went to the floor–and now you’re driving an automatic.
That didn’t catch on either.
:)
Hey Marcel
Was it tough building the pyramids?
:mrgreen: Not from where I am sitting Bob, but still wondering how they did it.
One of my uncles owned a push button Chrysler, to bad I was not old enough to drive it though. one hell of an innovation back in the early 60’s. :)
Oh ,sorry I thought you built them.
It was a '64 Dodge that I bought in 1970. My first car.
My Mom owned a Rambler with a push-button transmission too, I was too young to drive it though. 
Old memories:
Getting a drink of water right out of the neighbour’s hose
Sitting on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass trying to cook ants.
Caddying at the local golf course
Captian Kangaroo
Mighty mouse
Jae I remembered them all too!
Cheers
Talking about cars how many had one with the two speed power-glide tranny? It was the only (that i know) automatic you could push start if you had to. Had one in my 64 Chevy. I think it got a whopping 5 or 6 mile to the gallon.
Sky King in his “Song Bird” dropping bags of flour out the window to stop the bad guys.
Sky King & Adventures in Paradise, two of my favorite shows!
Sky King was good, but I liked Sea Hunt too!
I found a different Sky King here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1eSaRCSD4k&feature=related:)
Sky King Hell _ I only watched for Penny - she was hot!! except I didn;t know what hot was yet -
got all of them - but I only just turned 55 - well 5 years ago -
remember getting our first color TV when I was in 9th grade.