I am trying to remember a make of car I used to play in, nearly 50 years ago. The car was a two door coupe convertible, with push button shift. The thing is the buttons - as I remember - were on a console between the front seats. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

"Plymouths and Dodges from the 1960’s. " While Plymouths and Dodges (and of course, Chryslers) of that era had push-button shifter selectors, those buttons were definitely on the left-hand side of the instrument panel, not on a console. What Triedag has detailed above is a correct and comprehensiv…

Fifty years ago, bucket seats with a console between them were’t all that common. The Ford Thunderbird had a 2 door convertible around this time and the switches for the power windows may have been on the console. Could you have mistaken the window switches for the pushbuttons for the transmission…

Could it have been an import? I don’t know what brand it might have been. I’m just brainstorming.

I suppose that it could have been an import, but–50 years ago, did imports have a console in the middle? Please note that I am not referring to something like an Aston-Martin, a Jaguar, or a Ferrari. Those models may have had a console of sorts, but they most certainly would NOT have had a push b…

One vehicle that I thought about was the Chrysler 300 letter series (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L) that was produced from 1955 to 1965. A convertible model was introduced in 1957. Some of these models were equipped with an automatic transmission. However, I still think that the pushbuttons wer…

My brother had a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere with a push button shift - the buttons are on the right side of the steering wheel. There is a good picture at http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/gillette63.html

Nope, those are the climate control buttons. The shift buttons are on the left side of the steering wheel.

Almost all Chrysler products of the 1956-1964 era had HVAC buttons on the right-hand side of the steering wheel that essentially mirrored the shift-control buttons on the left-hand side of the wheel. This produced a fairly balanced, symmetrical look to the dashboard. In many cases, the slide cont…

Now He did say Convertable. Now I do remember that “Rambler” had a coupe (of sorts) with the push buttons in the middle. About 62 I think but 63 perhaps. One option was an convertable top but not a fold down… you had to take the buttons off the top and slide it back down the roof line. )

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A highschool buddy of mine in the late '60s had a Dodge Dart with a pushbutton tranny.

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Cars with push button transmission shifters

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