Blessedly Brief Button Blog! -- A "Theme Thursday" Post

The prototype touch-tone telephone pictured above sold on eBay for almost $18,000 less than a year ago! You probably figure that I've included it here because today's Theme Thursday subject is "BUTTON," and touch-tone telephones have buttons, right?

Wrong.

I'm showing it to acknowledge the fact that today's post is pretty much "phoned in," due to all-too-pressing concerns in the real world.

So now that I've wasted your time for a bit, allow me to showcase the real subject of today's brief post:

My first three cars (purchased & owned circa 1973-1976) were made by the Chrysler Corporation. My very first automobile was a tan 1964 Plymouth Belvedere. My second car was a maroon 1964 Dodge Polara 440. The third was a blue 1964 Plymouth Fury, like the one shown above. (A '64 Fury was basically a '64 Belvedere with fancier chrome).

That second car, the Dodge, was bought from a "motorhead" co-worker who had pulled out the stock 318 engine and replaced it with a 361. He'd also installed a three-speed manual transmission. But before he'd done that, my little Dodge had had what the two Plymouths had...

And that was a pushbutton transmission.

I've been feeling rather nostalgic about my early Plymouths -- I even immortalized the pushbutton tranny in several parts of a recent multi-part story -- and would like to own either a 1964 Belvedere or a 1964 Fury again sometime in the relatively near future.

So. If you made it this far, and would like to know more about these cars, you can start by clicking here!

That's all you get this go-round, fellow babies!

Thanks for your time.