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?

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…

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

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

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. )

Well, this Rambler has the buttons on the left: http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/08/1962Rambler_02_700.jpg

The only convertible in the AMC lineup in 1962-63 as I remember was the Rambler American. It had the conventional lever for the automatic transmision. AMC abandoned the push button transmission in 1963 for all its models. I do know that the original Rambler convertibles which came out in 1950 had…

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texases July 28, 2011, 4:12pm 13

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

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