Hot Rods Inland Tool Shifter

I'm sifting through things for my brother's estate and ran across this Inland Tool shifter. I know a little about them but I've had difficulty trying to find actual details on model #s, etc. Anyone have any references for these or can point me in the right direction?

 

I am thinking they were installed in cheap models with a manual trans ‘60’s ,’70’s . Performance muscle cars would get a Hurst.

 

The rods look like they are each progressively longer than each other, first thoughts are Saginaw, maybe Monza, that boot looks oem(ish).
Pretty sure ITM made shifters for various oem applications.

 

They were standard equipment on a lot of Chevys, in the sixties! I bought one a couple of years ago at a junk store and inquired about them!
They look like good shifters.





Bones

 

Bones, yours looks like a Mopar shifter. They used them too.

Dave

 

Looks to be GM (B) body Greg, maybe late 70's.

 

Wow! Thanks! I just inquired about the Inland Tool shifter and it took me to Chevrolet! I hope it is a MoPar shifter, should be more valuable than a Chevy!






Bones

 

Why would you want to shift your inland tool? Pants too tight?

 

Looks like @DDDenny nailed it, lay it out with the shift levers to match this side cover. The span between 3-4 and
1-2 is 3 11/16” and 1-2 and reverse is
1 3/16”.

 

Thanks Doug, Fordors. I was pretty certain it was Chevy but was not clear on the approximate year. Wow, 70's era is later than I thought. I knew it wasn't Mopar as most if not all of those had the reverse lock-out (T-lever). I did think it was unique that it appears to mount on the side of the side of the transmission (floor) hump. Now that you say that, my brother did have a 78-ish El Camino with a 4 speed. Perhaps this was the factory piece and he swapped to a Hurst set up......?

 

My early production '68 Road Runner 4 speed had an Inland shifter. Broke one lever twice, can't imagine how!

 

383 car? Those were a lot of fun!

 

yea mopar used them until 68, your's is not mopar look on ebay tons of them you can't hardly give them away and if you ever tried to shift a high reving motor with one you would no why JUNK

 

I think mopar used them on the OD 4 speed in the 70s.

 

Greg
Taking a chance with the mods on this "late model" stuff so this could disappear.
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=81693

Can't believe there are/were people specifically looking for one of the ITM shifters, there is some lengthy discussion on this 2014 thread.
Here:
https://nastyz28.com/threads/wtb-itm-shifter.275688/

 

68 Roadrunner had them.

 

I'm recalling those and the later Hurst pistol grip shifters have quite convoluted handles on them compared to this one.

 

The were commonly used on 2nd generation GM F-bodies (camaro,f-bird)also along with a lot of other rigs.

 

Inland is a good good company . I have a couple of them . They are top shelf stuff .

 

Thanks much Doug. I'll take a look at those sites to see what I can turn up.

- Greg

 

Is that the shifter Grumpy Jenkins used? It was an off brand from some little shop in Pa.. They said the action was like an expensive Swiss time piece

 

It was the first thing we changed when we started racing them. They hung up when you are really racing hard.

 

He also used the P&G shifter from another little shop in Portland Oregon.

 

They were commonly used on a lot of cars but more often than not got replaced with a Hurst after the car owner got tired of the sloppy shifting. A buddy gave me one years ago that he had replaced with a Hurst that I used on a three speed in a car I had then. We just moved the reverse lever to reverse position and tied it down with bailing wire and bingo it was a still sloppy but free three speed floor shift. It was still better than the horrid excuse for a shifter that came with the car though.

 

It the 68, and, if I recall, not the 69, either.

By 70 they had bends for the pistol grip.

 

What year do you think P&G went out of business? I have one of the "P&G Gappers" for setting valve clearances on solid lifter engines. I think they were pretty innovative for the time.

 

I don't know Greg but I bet the boys in Warminster puckered a little the first time they saw those P&G shifter decals on Grumpys' car!

 

Ha. No doubt. I think I'll do a little digging on P&G history!

 

I forgot to ask....what transmission/s does this side cover fit?

 

I didn’t mention it, as DDDenny already had, but it is a Saginaw, it was introduced in ‘66 and I guess GM used them for 15 or 20 years. Best suited to low horse engines, won’t take a lot of torque.
Sorry for the oversight.