On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Sandwich Maker wrote: > " From: Joe Smith <know_ware@xxxxxxxxx> > " > " Saturday I pulled a steering column off of a 61 American 4 door station wagon that had PNDLR (Park Neutral Drive Low Reverse) instead of PRNDL. It seems like it will work, but when and why was there a difference? What is the history of this? > > having forward and reverse right next to each other led to a number of > accidents, some serious, so in the early '60s the current quadrant > organization was federally mandated. pushbutton setups like mopar's > and amc's also disappeared at that time. I had no idea AMC had such a thing. Is it just a different valve body in the M35? I loved my pushbutton 62 Ambassador 400, but at least once, luckily in a parking lot going slowly, I pushed the wrong button while moving. Not Good. What could be more modern than a pushbutton transmission? _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list