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The other side of the button has a canister that looks similar to the one Plymouthy posted. Guess that figures that out. Now to get it up to speed and see if it shifts on its own.

Has the emblem on the side fender by the doors on either side but I don't recall anything else

Not football shaped and I couldn't find a reservoir for washer fluid. The carpet has frozen to the floor so I wasn't able to get to the inspection cover, I'll peel it out sometime this weekend.

The button has a larger cylinder underneath the floor but doesn't seem to be hooked up to anything. Almost looks like some kind of vacuum switch. I can also pull up on the shifter and shift down into 1st gear but without pulling it can (slowly) start off in 2nd and 3rd gear

Had someone else suggest it may be a manual kickdown button to make up for the fact I have a different carburetor on it. The stamping numbers are some kind of DD series carburetor, it somehow got stamped twice so I couldn't quite read the full serial number. I'll do some digging tonight after work, think the best way to tell would be to pull the inspection cover and see if there's the two big soup cans on it.

I'll have to check again because I'm pretty sure the dimmer switch is in the usual place off on the upper left side of the floorboards.

I recently purchased a 1950 Coronet with the Gyro-Matic badge however I noticed that there wasn't any special linkage or sensors on the carburetor that you'd expect to find with the automatics. There is however is a button on the floor (that is stuck) right in the middle of the clutch/brake pedal. Does anyone know what that button is for? I couldn't quite see it last night looking in through the engine bay. Or is that just a footrest like what Ford used to do in the Model A/Ts? How do I go about figuring out if I have the Gyro-Matic or something else? Is the lack of stuff on the carburetor a giveaway that it's not?