Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 12:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Welcome to the future!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Michael Walsh wrote:

> Actually, it was something of a rustbucket.  My parents bought it
> newish, had in storage when we went to Korea, got it out of storage when
> we came statreside and settled in No Va.  My father was constantly
> replacing bits of the body as it rusted.
>
> Oh... the transmission was, are you ready? ... push buttons on the
> dash.  Really ...  see:
> http://www.plymouthcentral.com/57PlymouthOptions.html

So it was futuristic to some extent.  My minivan has pushbutton
lights, rear window wiper and washer, and some other incidental
controls.  The car I rented in Scotland for WorldCon had a huge
pushbutton to start and stop the engine.

=Tamar