When did the Fordomatic overdrive unit come out?
When did the Fordomatic overdrive unit come out? The original Fordomatic was developed into the MX/FX automatics for 1958, the MX for the larger V8 cars and the FX for the smaller V8s. These were dubbed “Cruiseomatic”, and eventually were developed into the FMX, the XT-LOD, and overdrive unit first built in 1962, but not produced until 1979, and later called FIOD and then AOD. When did the two speed Fordomatic come out? Well, that was the case starting in 1964, but it’s easy to forget that many big Fords between 1959 and 1963 came only with the the two-speed...