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The main article for Powerglide states they were discontinued by 1973, their last application being the Vega. I have an all original 1973 Chevrolet Nova, with a factory-installed Powerglide.
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Oppose. I almost speedy closed this but the "See all pages" thing might be this editor of questionable
competence's attempt at a rationale so we might as well let the snowball finish melting. The Chevrolet Powerglide is definitely the primary topic here, it shouldn't be moved. --
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00:56, 18 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment: I almost proposed a bulk speedy close, but thought better of it, and suspect I'm not the only one. But we're all learners here. No change of vote.
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08:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The Chev Powerglide is the primary article, and the other articles are positively (Corvair Powerglide) or probably (the other 2) named from the Chev 'glide. If there is a need for disambiguation, create
Powerglide (disambiguation) and add a hatnote to this article, as prescribed by the
manual of style for this situation where one article is so clearly the primary article. --
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Slip and Slide
There was another reason we called this transmission the "Slip and Slide Powerglide" back in the day.
After many of them got about 80,000 miles on them they would have difficulty going from low to high gear.
They would "slip" and "slip" and finally "slide" into high gear. You could sometimes finesse the gas pedal
when this happened and help the thing shift. Sometimes the shifting action got so slow as to be almost non-existant,
in which case the driver would start out in low and shift into high when the rpm's got high enough.
Reference number 1 is not a book titled Every Model, Every Year, which I could not find, but is a book called Every Model, Year by Year, which can be seen here
[1].
Maybe the person who used the book firsthand can explain the error in titling the book. I have also noticed the same error on other pages, that include
Plymouth Cambridge,
Lincoln H-series,
1957 Ford and more, which is why I perefer not to edit it myself just yet.
I came here to have a look at the details of how this transmission actually works, but the article is underwhelmingly sparse with the description bit. The article definitely needs some attention. --
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