Jurassic Park Revisited
This all came about from a technician who was working on a cast-iron Hydramatic in a vintage 1955 Cadillac. During the phone conversation the technician mentioned that with all the late-model electronically controlled vehicles that come through his shop, it felt strange working on a version of the first automatic transmission ever put into a car or truck, to which I answered, “I don’t think the cast-iron hydro was the first automatic transmission.”
