Our 1960 Kingwood station wagon had Turboglide. It was traded in fall of 1965 for a 1966 Impala Super Sport with the 2-speed transmission. My dad needed a car with bucket seats for his back post back surgery.
Cruise-O-Matic: Part One
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I owned a 67’ Buick Skylark 2 dr HT with a small 300 V8 and one of the later versions of the Buick Turbine auto trans. I bought this car used in March of 77’ it had 108,000+ miles and I drove it until Nov. 81’. It had over 180,000 miles on it when I trade it. I had the trans rebuilt in 79’ for $250.00! This was the smoothest auto trans car I ever drove and I consistently got 19 mpg with combined stop and go and hwy driving. It really was my most favorite car out of the 23 cars I’ve owned in the last 49 years. It had more than adequete power, shifted as smooth as silk, rode like it was on a cloud and handled nimbly for an intermediate size car of its day.
If I ever found another and had a way to buy it I sure would.
I also thought that the Chevrolet Powerglide trans. were fine cars too. They got good mpg and were smooth driving cars. The new auto trans cars don’t shift as smoothly IMHO, but then I’ve not driven any of the high end variety,so they may be better. But all these extra gears in an attempt to improve mpg and performance just aren’t as pleaserable to drive as the older auto trans cars with Powerglide, Dynaflow, Turboglide and the like.
Eddie
If I ever found another and had a way to buy it I sure would.
I also thought that the Chevrolet Powerglide trans. were fine cars too. They got good mpg and were smooth driving cars. The new auto trans cars don’t shift as smoothly IMHO, but then I’ve not driven any of the high end variety,so they may be better. But all these extra gears in an attempt to improve mpg and performance just aren’t as pleaserable to drive as the older auto trans cars with Powerglide, Dynaflow, Turboglide and the like.
Eddie
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Cruise-O-Matic: Part Two
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