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Thank you for the clarification.

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We had a Pontiac Tempest wagon with push button transmission controls.

63

The lever was an interesting design. If you hadnā€™t already pushed the neutral button, the first part of the lever movement pushed in the neutral button, the remainder of the movement engaged the parking pawl. I drove a '63 New Yorker last fall. Brought back fond memories of throwing it into ā€œparkā€ with my left hand while i cut the engine with my right.

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I believe that your recollection is faulty, and these posts would seem to support my opinion:

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65

Your link does not work, maybe it was a lever on the dash, something different about it, I was a youngin then, so could be mixing up push buttons with another car.

66

Yes, I think that it may have been a dash-mounted lever, but it definitely did not have push buttons for the trans. Remember, this car had its transmission attached to the rear axle, so an unusual shifter mechanism was likely. The Corvair had a dash-mounted lever (and the chassis of the original Tempests were derived from the Corvair chassis), so it wouldnā€™t have been too unusual for the original Tempests to have also had a dash-mounted lever.

The older brother of one of my friends owned a '62 Tempest, and the more I think about it, it just might have had a dash-mounted shift lever.

I recall being very impressed by the quality of the Morrokide vinyl upholstery. What wasnā€™t so impressive was the need to replace the rear tires every 10k miles or so. The independent rear suspension on his car probably needed work, but instead of doing that, he kept throwing new tires at it. I suggested that tire rotation might be a good idea, and he looked at me as if I was speaking a foreign language.

Also, its half-a-V-8 four cylinder engine was inherently unbalanced, and it set up some really annoying vibrations.

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The shift lever on the 1962 Pontiac Tempest was under the dash to the right of the steering column;

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If you did, it was the only one ever made.

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Tye chrome lever under the shift indicator selected the driving range. The transmission was part of the rear axle on the '61-'63 Tempest.

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Yes! That is what I recall.

71

Yeah, all you have to do is hit the shifter toward reverse.
Wonā€™t go into reverse unless you push the button in.

72

But at least on a motorcycle you can just lock up the rear brake and stall it out.