Crosley Cars.

Some of the Edsel cars had push button automatic transmissions.The push buttons were in the middle of the steering wheel.Sometimes the push buttons didn't work too well.Other than that, I think the Edsels were good cars. cuhulin

Yeah, the early 60's+ had some horrendous looking ones. We had a 60 Dodge Matador, one of the nicest cars ever made IMHO. A friend of the family had a 60 Lincoln Premier, also nice if you like em BIG. I wish I could own one of each.

We used to do that as kids... but when the old man yelled, "are you GD kids playing with the buttons again!!!", some of us would shift into TorqueFlite, and peel out to hide behind the oak tree... others would simply be neutralized by torquefright.

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What us kids (well, primarily I) discovered in the '58 Dodge was that it was possible to push all the buttons behind the faceplate at the same time. Our parents HATED this, for some odd reason.

Screwdrivers were kept readily to hand for the inevitable that occurred whenever we were left alone in the car for any length of time...

Some Packard cars had push button transmissions too.Push button gear shifts date way on back to the antique cars era.I have a lot of books here about those antique cars. cuhulin

Hold out for a VW with the bud vase on the dashboard.

--scott