Who remembers "push button transmissions?"

April 02, 2014

My wife and her sister Marsha fondly remember their old Plymouth Belvedere. The one thing they always mention is the transmission, it was actually a push button. Maybe that explains the resistance I faced when I told Marlene she needed to learn to drive a standard shift. She wasn't excited but she learned to clutch with the best of us. And all of our kids learned how to drive one, just in case. When I saw this car a few weeks ago I wanted to take a few minutes to capture a memory for two very special ladies, my wife and her sister.

While many of you readers are far too young to even imagine such madness, hopefully some of you will. And maybe it will being a smile to your faces too. I hope so, I don't know how many more of these you will ever have a chance to see. I'm glad I did.


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