Technical Anyone got a vintage Hurst book? Need help to ID a NOS shifter.

I recently picked up this hurst shifter


I think it's for a 52-62 Ford with overdrive. But I'm not sure. Can you identify this?

Thanks
Hitch

 

That's correct. Are the instructions still in the box?

 

Thanks, There is a sealed envelope with what is probably the instructions. But I didn't want to open it.

That probably has exactly the info I need on it? Lol

 

great find! i'm currently adapting a new indy shifter to the overdrive on my '50 ford. shifters specifically for o.d. aren't made anymore...

 

It should.

 

Ford used 2 different overdrive transmissions, T-85 and a T-86, if that’s for the T-85 it’s a really hard one to find.

 

How do I tell?

 

Open the envelope. It's going to contain an illustration of the shifter and the transmission that it's intended to fit.

 

Do a video of you opening the envelope to establish what it fits. Like those unwrapping videos people seem to love, for some inexplicable reason.

 

Schucks auto parts was founded in 1917, in 2009, O'Reilly gradually rebranded various stores such as Checker, Kragen, and Schucks. By 2011, that major rebranding was completed.
That price tag and that "Schucks" label, is a piece of automotive history indeed!

 

It's been requested that I do a unwrapping/unboxing video of the entire truck load of unknown boxes. So i guess that's what I am doing today.

 

I remember when Al's auto supply became Schucks out in Lake City. We always went to Napa anyways.

 

FO 5262 1962 Ford Fairlane V8 3 SPD V8 9 BOLT SIDE COVER 15'' STICK NO OD Hurst Cat 1965.

 

9 bolt side cover is a positive ID for the T-85 transmission.
Nice find!

 

Really nice find, those are really hard to come by. This link has a few pictures of the Hurst brackets, (along with some items prob not of interest). Shows it on the bench being set up. Might be of use to confirm your find. It you don’t have a T-85 o/d laying around.

https://www.hotrodreverend.com/post/2017/09/20/55-ford-restoration-blog-part-10

 

I opened it. Figured you guys would love to see it.

 

Uh,oh. When @bushwacker 57 said 9 bolt cover I immediately thought of the T-85 but I was wrong, it’s not for that.

 

Bravo!
Magic still lives in old boxes and folded paper in sealed envelopes!

 

T-86 Then? I'm unfamiliar with these year fords.

 

Schrodinger's instructions

 

Always fun opening up a time capsule. They just don't make them like they used to

 

thats like so awesome

thxs for the share

you just see that kind of quality in anything anymore in anything like this . so dig the illustration s also . . .

 

STRIGHT BOTTOM SIDE COVER

 

I remember those being sold at Grand Auto back in the late 60s

 

Back in the day Shucks was up and down he I 5 corridor for the most part. Then they expanded in the late 80's and bought out Al's and there were a number of those in Central Washington. My son was working evenings at the Al's at Nob Hill and 40th in Yakima in 1988 and I was working at Bowden's in Sunnyside at night and he would call me and ask about a part someone needed every once in a while. I think Shucks bought them out just after he left there and It was around 2005 that O'Reilly's bought out the Shucks stores and the first thing they did was get rid of all the non automotive junk that cluttered up the stores.

 

You ruined it by opening the envelope.

 

Good work on opening it, I love the lengths manufacturers went to back in the day with presentation and documentation, now you just get a generic QR code that links to a website.

Get it fitted to a car and keep the paper parts safe, its a pointless piece of metal in its current state.

Life's to short to get hung up on an inanimate object 99.999999% of the world couldn't care less about, let it do its job! haha

 

Yes, T-86