Re: ZIL-111

Posted by R Anderson On 2010/4/7 9:36:17

PowerFlite was also bullet-proof reliability-wise. It lasted to about 1961, after which only TorqueFlite was available. I've had around 15 cars with PF or TF. They were respectively, for their time, considered the best 2 sp and 3 spd trannies by most automotive commmentators. ZIL picked good ones to copy! Neither PF or TF ever had a PArk buton, but later TFs around 1962 got a sliding Park lever under the dash to provide a true transmission Park feature, rather than just depending on the sometimes unreliable E-brake. Last year for pushbuttons was 1964, for '65 federal safetly mandates required column or floor shift.

AMC went from Borg-Warner Flash-O-Matic to TorqueFLite 908/998/727 around '71.