I thought I should ask the members here to get any answers, while I was in
the local autozone a couple of people overheard me asking about the parts I
ordered for a 1959 imperial, one other customer that was standing in line behind
me asked me if it was a pushbutton auto, and I said yes, he and another guy
started telling me about all the problems they had with pushbuttons, I'm
happy to hear none of you have had this problem. as I like the concept of the
pushbuttons , and not havin a big ugly stick on the side of the colmn of my
car..
John Harvey <50scars@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I never saw anyone who had trouble with push
button automatics. I heard rumors, but never actually knew anyone who
had problems. This is from the day they were new, to where you
could buy the car for $50 if it ran good, and the floor was still good enough
that the seat didn't rock, to the collector cars they now are. I
had 57 and 58 Mercurys, 58 Edsil, 56-64 Chrysler products with them, NEVER HAD
PROBLEMS. With the Mercury and Edsils, that was about the only parts
that were trouble free. Chrysler didn't stop using them because of
problems, they stopped because the US Government mandated a standard automatic
transmission selector starting 1955. GM had to redesign their
transmissions to put the R between P and N, instead of all the way to the
bottom where it had been from day one.
JOhn
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