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Load up the kids and head for Yellowstone! Mom & Dad had Mopar station wagons, but not one of these. Plenty of room, though.

Notice the Torqueflite push button shifter. Those were a strong tranny - drag racers used them a lot. SW


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Finally found a match - we had one of these, a 61 Plymouth wagon. Lots o' room for 4 rowdy kids and several bags of gro! SW


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My uncle had a '63 Polara 4 door hard top. By '63, they had gone back to the column mounted shifter. Our family car until '65 or so was a '53 Chev 2 door coupe.
IIRC, the push button auto trans was available as an option on first production year Barracuda's.
There was a lady down the street from us with a '62 or '63 Rambler 4 door sedan with the push button auto trans, and power rear window. Got flies in your Rambler? No problem. Power down the rear windshield and all 4 windows. Run it up to 30 mph and no more bugs.
That old Chevy had the best sounding A.M. radio I have ever heard in my life.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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My first car was a 10 year old 1956 Desoto 4 door with a hemi engine, can't remember the cubic inch. It had push buttons for the trans.
It cost me $150.00 that I earned loading and unloading semi's at a speaker factory. The thing was a tank, I think it weighed 5400 pounds.
With a heavy tailwind going down hill on a steep grade you could get 80 out of it. AHHH the memories.

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"Like a tank with it's tracks blown off, my turret still swivels and my cannon fires, so whenever the fight kicks off, I'll likely live or die right there, where the fight begins and ends"
John Connor

dang - back to the sixtys again , family vacation car