Horizontal push button shifter on an A body

Pretty cool, like the black color, too. They really did a lot to make the Lancer "upscale" when it launched in '61, the dash design is similar to the more expensive B and C bodies, but by '62 they pretty much matched the Valiant. When I was driving my '62 Valiant in the 70's thought the Lancers were just an odd variant of the Valiant. Of course after '62 they were gone and replaced by another variant of the Valiant, a slightly longer bodied Dart that looked somewhat different, but shared most components.