How about the Chrysler M-6, or the same transmission in the Dodge called the Gyro-Matic? ("Jerk-O-Matic")?

Then there was the compression release lever on the old Cummins 220's and 262's- - - - - -pull the knob, get the engine spinning with the starter, and then push it in to make it run! That was in warm weather. On a really cold day, there were the little rubber capsules of liquid ether that had to be slit with a pocketknife and squeezed into a tube attached to the intake manifold!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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