First, to the guy with the shot tranny in his T-Bird, I would have to agree that a C6 is the best choice. You could rebuild the old trans, if you could find someone who knows what they're doing, but it would be very expensive, probably more than a good C6 would be outright. I'd stay away from a C4 unless you want slipping upshifts under full throttle. C4s are way to light duty to put behind an FE big block; it'd be toast inside of a year if you halfway drove it hard.

To the guy with a wierd shifting pattern in his Cruise-O, I had a '59 Fairlane with a 332 FE and a Cruise-O-Matic. It had D, D2, and L on the shift selector on the steering column. If you put it in D, it started in low, shifted automatically to second, and then again into drive (or third). If you put it into D2, it started in second and shifted into drive automatically. If you put it into L in started in first and stayed there until you selected another range. I distinctly remember putting this car into D2 on muddy roads so as to put the power to the wheels without slipping, and it did help. I lived way out of town where muddy roads were the norm, so I did this quite often. I have an '88 Bronco with a 351W and a C6, and it does exactly the same thing the old Cruise-O did with respect to gear selection. The only difference I can tell (other than the trans is obviously different) is that D2 has been replaced with 2 and L has been replaced with 1 on the column selector.

Randy