The abuse continues...

I'd also consider purchasing a floor-shift column from you, preferably manual steering but I'm not picky.

The pedals should look something like this...

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The column I need obviously wouldn't have a key switch, but I could swap that bit over from my current column if need be.
 
huh..well ya know what ..the car i need to cut up still has a comun in it but the pedals are gone.....but i know i had 2 sets...the thing is finding them

ill double check the column tommaro ......however....somewhere i also have just the column ring polished
 
71ChargerRT said:
I just scored a pair of uncut J heads, an LD4B and a B&M shifter for $200.
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See, it's kind of nice to suck once in awhile... because now you suck too! :D

Once the holidays are over and people have money to spend on cars again, dump the crapshit shifter on Das Auction Seight and recoup a bunch of your investment, or keep it for barter. I dunno, maybe you don't have the dim view of ratchet shifters in general and B&M equipment in particular that I have, but I'd off that thing as profitably as possible.
 
Which car? The Nova? Man, I'd leave it right on the column. When I was considering leaving mine an auto, I was going to get custom governor weights from either A&A or John Veatch (if he's still doing 'em) and do just that. That way I could have a normal daily-driver upshift speed but a balls-out full-throttle one. Of course, there's always the reverse-pattern full-manual on the column. Hard to overshift a tree automatic going clockwise since you have to pull for the detents. :dance:

But that's just me. I guess I'm not the fan of floor-shift automatics that I once was: "Well, I want it to be sporty like a manual trans, but, you know... clutch 'n' stuff." :D
 
71ChargerRT said:
Yup, it's an automatic, but that's okay, this car is perfectly fine with an automatic.
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I know, I've got them too.. they have a purpose, makes it much easier to eat a cheeseburger while smoking a cigarette and drive at the same time.. I like my pushbuttons, but I'd take a death wheel to the floor of my Fury to stick an A-833 in there tomorrow if the cost of the unit wasn't four times the worth of my car. More that I don't have the scratch to do it.. too many projects, not enough time or chedda.
 
TheIronSausage said:
Unfortunately, it also means you've got an automatic!
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:clap:.....:D

71ChargerRT said:
Yup, it's an automatic, but that's okay, this car is perfectly fine with an automatic.
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:dance:

Dr.Jass said:
Which car? The Nova? Man, I'd leave it right on the column. When I was considering leaving mine an auto, I was going to get custom governor weights from either A&A or John Veatch (if he's still doing 'em) and do just that. That way I could have a normal daily-driver upshift speed but a balls-out full-throttle one. Of course, there's always the reverse-pattern full-manual on the column. Hard to overshift a tree automatic going clockwise since you have to pull for the detents. :dance:

But that's just me. I guess I'm not the fan of floor-shift automatics that I once was: "Well, I want it to be sporty like a manual trans, but, you know... clutch 'n' stuff." :D
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I am of the same train of thought Doc.....would rather have a stock column shift auto, then a tacky aftermarket shifter. Although a factory console shifted auto set up wouldn't bother me too much.
 
I do dig the auto consoles in the sixties cars. The shifter's style is excellent, the lights in the side are tits, and I get a little weak in the knees if I see a tach at the front..
 
Why anyone would go through the time, labor and expense to convert from column to floor and leave it an auto is beyond me. All the mostly stock cars I've seen over the years with an aftermarket auto shifter almost makes one want to puke. To me they are on the same level as whale-tail spoilers and ground effects :dgt:...............posers. :(
 
68R/T said:
Why anyone would go through the time, labor and expense to convert from column to floor and leave it an auto is beyond me. All the mostly stock cars I've seen over the years with an aftermarket auto shifter almost makes one want to puke. To me they are on the same level as whale-tail spoilers and ground effects :dgt:...............posers. :(
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....or GM style cowl induction hood scoops.....:hurl:
 
TheIronSausage said:
I do dig the auto consoles in the sixties cars. The shifter's style is excellent, the lights in the side are tits, and I get a little weak in the knees if I see a tach at the front..
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I've never liked the knob on those, although the intro of the woodgrain one in '70 was a minor improvement (although it's rather hideous itself). The biggest problem I have with the big metal-top consoles, other than the fact that they squeak like a microwave full of bats, is the fact that the shifter itself has all the precision shifting feel of sliding a paint stick through a 5-gallon pail of sand. Now, graft a Slap-Stik mechanism underneath the top plate and you'd have something. Something that still looks like ass, rattles like novelty wind-up teeth and squeals like a tar pit full of piglets, but at least shifts properly. The E-body/'71-up B-body console is even worse for noise, and essentially useless for anything beyond legal papers and a pair of sunglasses, but at least unlike the metal-top earlier units it weighs less than a clawfoot bathtub.
 
I thought the ratchet shift set-up on my 73 RR with the T-style console shifter was actually pretty decent. The noise, quality and ability to store anything was poor, but the mechanism itself was decent enough.
 
Jass, I thought the detail in the knob on those was awesome.. bucket o sand or not, I grew up in the rust belt in the eighties (I know you all live there now, shuddup).. nobody had anything like that when I was a kid, none of them were left.. the amount of thought and design (not engineering) that went into those consoles and shifters, all doomed for broken hinges and latches, was just awesome.. They were mind blowing to my twelve year old self.. I liked Corvettes before that. Sweet Jeebus.
 
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