Pretty clever, yes? Twin-Stick combined traditional Rambler fuel economy with some shifty sporty-car fun. Additionally, there was a small white button atop the left shift knob allowing the driver to kick down, instantly and clutchlessly, from overdrive to standard gear range.
So the setup worked pretty much like a three-speed-plus-overdrive standard transmission, but with a convenient second stick so the driver could manually select or disengage overdrive at any time, on the fly. A second lever was added alongside the console shifter for the three-speed manual transmission.
In a nutshell, Twin-Stick was Rambler’s tried-and-true Borg-Warner electric overdrive system, beloved of penny-pinching fuel misers everywhere, but with a sporty twist. Here’s one more interesting example: the Twin-Stick transmission of 1963-1965. But led by clever and creative product guys including Roy Chapin Jr, Richard Teague, and Roy Abernathy, to name a few, the plucky automaker always managed to offer something different. With only a fraction of the technical and economic resources of the Detroit Three, American Motors was continually challenged as it battled to carve out its own distinctive brand identity in the competitive ’60s car market. Always zigging where the rest of the auto industry was zagging, little American Motors introduced its own novel transmission control in 1963, known as the Twin-Stick.
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