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Originally Posted by Tcoat
What about this?
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Yep, the column shift was an innovation over the floor board shift for sure.
However, I said "Now, I usually refer to most automobile transmissions as a 5 speed, 6 speed or auto".
The operative word is "now" .......
Which brings to mind, I had a buddy in HS that had a 1938 Hudson Terraplane. The shifter was a steering column-mounted electric gear pre-selector and electro-mechanical automatic shifting system. It also had the floorboard shifter in case it had problems.
(the advantage was you could seat your date right next to you without getting slapped every time you shifted .....
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So, what was that called ....... the shift selector was on the column, but the feature was not "standard" equipment, and it could still be shifted with a floorboard shifter ....... ??
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