[Shotimes] Re: Park vs. Forward (was Autolock and MTX)

[Kerby Haltom]

That was the "wonderful" Ford-O-Matic.  My grandfather's '57 Fairlane had 
one of those in it.  It took Ford a pretty good while to learn how to make 
an ATX.

Kerby

At 07:27 PM 2/1/04 -0600, Paul Nimz wrote:
>I had 2 Mercury Comets with two sped autos, one a '62 the other a '64.  Must
>have been marked slow and slower.......
>
>Paul Nimz
>'97 TR
>'93 EG mtx
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kerby Haltom" <kerbyh@netzero.net>
>To: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 7:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: Park vs. Forward (was Autolock and MTX)
>
>
> > Ford Cruise-O-Matic, as seen in my '66 Galaxie, PRN2D1.  Just to keep
> > things confusing.
> >
> > Kerby
> >
> > At 06:58 AM 2/1/04 -0600, Donald Mallinson wrote:
> > >Also, just as a point of history, the PRNDL format has not always been
>the
> > >same.
> > >
> > >in the early days of automatics, GM used this format:  PNDLR
> > >
> > >Chevy for their Turboglide used: PNDGrR   Now that was confusing, Gr
>stood
> > >for Grade Retarder.  Since there were no "gears" as such in the
>Turboglide
> > >(the tranny used three torque converters in a row and as they locked up
> > >the car went faster, was like driving a train!) they reversed the vanes
>on
> > >two of the torque converters as a type of low gear for going down REALLY
> > >steep hills.
> > >
> > >Mopar had NO park position on their buttons from the 50's and 60's, you
> > >had to flip a little lever to lock the tranny!
> > >
> > >Don Mallinson
> > >
> > >fwhittle@mindspring.com wrote:
> > >
> > >>(F)orward might be confused with (F)irst?  (Reaching, I know!)
> > >>Besides, "Prndl" is easier to say than "Prnfl" (the "official" name of
> > >>the gear indicator is "prindl")
> > >>Frank Whittle
> > >>'95 ATX
> > >>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:29:42 -0800 (PST)
> > >>From: Ron Childs <rbchilds@pacbell.net>
> > >>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Autolock and MTX
> > >>To: "James F. Ryan III" <av8r567@optonline.net>, shotimes@autox.team.net
> > >>Drive is the opposite of Park?
> > >>-Ron
> > >>--- "James F. Ryan III" <av8r567@optonline.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>>With an automatic, you always have to go through reverse to go
> > >>>>from P to D.