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My '57 Chrysler Saratoga, and my '61 Dodge Pioneer both have the push button transmission selector. Never had a problem with them, but when I was in high school back in the late sixties I did have a problem with a '61 Dodge Phoenix convertible. The push button selector wasn't working right. Took the car to a local Chrysler dealer, and he made the necessary repair.
Rich Woolf '66 Crown '73 LeBaron '75 LeBaron
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I have been driving various push button automatics since I was 16 - I am now 56. Never had a problem with one yet :-)
Tom
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Message----- 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.. 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.
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