wow, that steering wheel! its not a wheel

I like the pushbutton transmission selector

Chrysler had square steering wheels for a couple of years.... till 64 I believe. Love the full instrumentation... and the thermometer style speedometer.

Was a push button transmission a thing in those days? I remember a documentary on the making of Christine and how they had to have a fleet of 58 Plymouth Furys (Furies?) because the push button transmission was really wonky. Or maybe it was another reason, but regardless, all furies were temperamental.

Yes I've seen many cars of that time period that have it.

It's a gearbox selector feature which was prominent in lieu of a gear lever in the cars produced by Chrysler from 1957-1963, although Ford had briefly attempted to reverse-engineer that mechanical feature into their short-lived Edsels and marketed them as the "Tele-Touch" Transmission selectors and mounted it in the CENTRE OF THE BLOODY STEERING WHEELS! Which if you don't know what that is, would effectively be regarded as the physical culmination of all corporate hubris, which simply meant that it flopped even harder than a flimsy and soggy carpet...

When the future looked classy.

Nice car