3 spd from tree to floor

I like a floor shift. it is no biggy to do one. Some cars are difficult to find a shifter for. Buy a good one.

On the subject of buying a good one I have used a sparkomatic before. LOL

 

In my eyes there is only one three speed shifter......the Hurst Syncro-Loc.

 

3 on the tree is fun with or without overdrive.

 

Referring to the pic above. I remember putting a drilled 8 ball on my tree in high school. The weight of the pool ball would pull it out of second on a good bump. Pretty soon off to Nichols Discount City auto dept. for a genuine Sparkomatic with the built in walnut knob. Everything mentioned in this thread is true,,,, POS!

I've just scored a mint B&M shifter for the '60 Corvette three speed going in my Vicky, (thanks charles vreeland on here). My personal all time favorite if you can find one. When I was a kid my Dad was a B&M dealer. They layed all over the shop Those were the days.

 

The good thing about a 3 on the tree is that it functions as an anti-theft device since nobody under 60 knows how to drive one. Keeping 3 on the tree on Ozelle the '55 Ford. Parents bought the car new and I learned to drive on it.

 

A younger me would put em in the floor.
But, the novelty of the column shift today makes it much cooler that it used to be.
If ya do change it, the others are correct on using a quality shifter.

 

Many years ago my niece bought a 69 Nova for her sons' first car, it was a four door, four cylinder/three speed on the column. Did a tuneup on it and it was actually pretty fun to drive but all I could think of was how much more fun it would be with a floor shifter. Thought I might even offer to put one in for him but he ended up not liking the car.
He decided it just wasn't his thing and bought a front wheel drive V6 "everymans"car.

 

I'm toying with the idea of a 4 speed T-10 in my 62 impala ....on the column. I'll use a morse cable under the dash for reverse. It's got a 261 six in it. Lippy

 

A younger me did do that with my 66 chev truck, now I have my 62 Ford unibody with 3 in the tree and I don’t mind it at all, really helps to go through the column and cleanup all the old petrified grease and replace the bushings, repair or replace the rods, also look at how slopped out the arms are on the trans. They can shift quite nicely, just not that fast. Which is probably a good thing with an old transmission

 

Me too! Just can’t seem to find a narrow pattern unit for my yblock

 

We may have to talk. LOL. Lippy

 

I had a car with 4 speed on the tree from the factory, 1959 Borgward Isabella coupe, it was fun to drive and it threw a lot of guys for a loop when I told them what it had!