While looking for some info in an older Motor Manual , got to thinking about all the different names for automatic transmissions.
Here are a few : Cadillac & La Salle Hydra-matic Drive
Chrysler Vacamatic
DeSoto Simplimatic
Lincoln Liquamatic Drive
Buick Dynaflow
Chevrolet Powerglide
Chevrolet Turboglide
Chrysler Semi-Automatic.
Chrysler Powerflite
Chrysler Torqueflite
Ford-O-Matic
Merc-O-Matic
Packard Twin Ultramatic
Rambler Flashomatic
Studebaker Flightomatic
Buick Flight-Pitch Triple Turbine Dynaflow
Cruise-O-Matic
Edsel Mile-O-Matic
Edsel Select-O-Matic
Buick Special Dual Path Drive
Roto Hydra-Matic
Olds Jetaway
Tempestorque
AMC Torque-Command
Pontiac 2-Speed
Slip and slide with Powerglide.
The Pontiac marketing department, must have been working overtime, to come up with their name! :haha:
My 1977 Impala had a Turbo-Hydramatic 200.
Slim Jim (GM)
Buick has some good names.
Always thought that GM kept the 2 speed power glide way to long after other manufacturers had already gone to 3 speed automatics. They were still selling that slush box in the early 70's
:deadhorse:
Sorry, first thing that came to mind...
Why this car is automatic
It's systematic
It's hydromatic
Why it's greased lightnin'!
I had a 56 Buick Special back in the early 70's and it had a Dynaflow trans. You could hear it whine and whistle.
Damn that car was a TANK. The front bumper alone probably weighed more than a new F-150 truck. The last day I owned it I was pulling in the front of my house and the brakes went and I hit a parked 1973 Mercury Monteray. The Merc was almost totaled and my Buick only had a small scratch on one of the bullets on the front bumper. Attached is a photo of a 56 Buick for those of you two young to know what they looked like.
JS27
Those 56 Buicks are sharp rides, I check the prices once in a while looking for one.
:wrenching: Not automatic but Muncie M-21 rock crusher.
Quote from: 1Burgfish on August 23, 2019, 12:30:52 PM
:wrenching: Not automatic but Muncie M-21 rock crusher.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe the rock crusher was the M22. :thinking:
Quote from: JpRngr on August 23, 2019, 09:57:44 PM
Quote from: 1Burgfish on August 23, 2019, 12:30:52 PM
:wrenching: Not automatic but Muncie M-21 rock crusher.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe the rock crusher was the M22. :thinking:
I think you are right!
Rock Crusher--we called them Stone Crushers back in the day.
JS27