Re: Manual versus Automatic (ULTRAmatic), post-war

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2015/6/10 11:48:04

In response to your comment re: "Why a luxury maker like Packard made so many standard shift cars" (or words to that effect) I think what you will find is that in '51-'54 Packard was making a lot of less than luxury models, more Pontiac grade than Cadillac, and those customers were both the old fuddys that didn't want the new fangled automatic transmissions, and didn't want to pay for much other than the basics. As you get into the upper series cars, the Patrician 400 in '53-'54 I think you will find that most all of them came with an automatic.