I bought a new B&M series 60 shifter for the Turbo 400 trans in my racecar in the late 70's. I was not aware they made a "ratchet" version.
I was not either. I did find it in an old (1971) B&M catalog but, it's the only one I have ever seen. Here are the parts I made (by hand) for the reverse lock out. and here it is fully restored and modified
way back there was something called the X Shifter? I remember it being an aluminum box using Chevy three speed gears and top load shifter…
I had an X shift transmission case.Used late 3 speed gears with an early Chevy floor shift top cover. Wish i had kept it.
Here's a Carevelle shifter stick that's been modified for my set-up. It was a neat, unknown, item until a HAMBer (@bowie) educated me on it. After learning the name, I looked for more info on the brand but there's not much. The diamond shape adds to the vibe of my interior. It was gifted to me by @Von Hartmann .
My '39 has a Hurst Compe***ion Plus shifter. It had some weird rods on it, so I looked up replacements. HOLY COW! Prices have gone up! Same for a good Muncie 4 speed. I used to buy used Muncies, with shifters, for $100 - $125. Now you can pay almost that much in sales tax. I had an OT BBC Chevelle with a Mr. Gasket Vertical Gate shifter. My Mom had to drive it once, all the way home in second gear. Beep beep!
Hello, One of the most fun projects in my high school Metal Shop and Automotive Cl*** was a coordinated cl*** project for my friend’s old Pontiac sedan. The Pontiac sedan was pretty nice in the body work and was well taken care of from the original owner. So, the body modifications and repairs were minimal to say the least, for a first teenage car. The motor was the straight 8, ok for normal street power, but it was not going to win any drag races unless it was against a 53 Chevy with a 6 cylinder or my Flathead powered Ford Sedan Delivery. similar in color and style... He knew the limitations and how much he wanted to spend to keep it a cool looking car. It was reliable and we went to a lot of places just because it was comfortable riding around in the seats. But, yes, the power was lacking. We still had tons of teenage fun and the car did have some cl***ic lines from the GM factory. Possible future style and accessories of the cool 1951 Pontiac sedan old Friday Art One thing he wanted, since he could not afford an engine swap with a 3 or 4 speed transmission was to at least look like an old hot rod. The look would be taken from a friend's red 1940 Ford Two Door Sedan that has a LaSalle transmission hooked up to a Buick motor. The LaSalle stick lever was tall and stuck up over the window sill, so everyone could see the hand on the knob. Jnaki Going to several car accessory shops and speed shops to see what was available for the shifting mechanism for his automatic transmission was limited. There were some that were very expensive, actually, they were all expensive and looked like we could design the same mechanism. sample ad from the Drag News weekly paper. So, we went back to the Metal Shop/Auto Shop and with a dummy Hydramatic Transmission for a practice measurement trial run, lots of cardboard and tape came out for the fittings. Since we were the more experienced of the students, we were given the project for a special grading project. With our measurements of the samples from the accessory speed shops, it was a simple process to fit a cutdown metal plate as the base then add or modify what was needed for the basic box, before the levers and arms were added. After many tries, it was the idea of taking all arms off of the column and removing the shift lever. Then the measurement and bending of the levers was done to make the shifting easy and gear selection positive. We had made a threaded base and any threaded rod could be inserted for the tall shift lever. The first one was a long straight rod and that hit the dash. The next few models were bent and after hitting or getting too close to the dash. Breaking out the welding torch, we arrived at a cool curved unit that stayed away from the dash, but still gave room to the p***engers in the seat. The fine sanding and detailing came next, along with the popular silver spray can paint. The final result was an “A” in the cl*** project and admiration of the younger students at what the older teens could do for a special project on our hot rods and cruisers. The earlier years of contacting C&O Stick Hydro transmission shop for a conversion of the 3 speed transmission to a full on race prepped Stick Hydro in the 1958 Impala was the option for a floor shift lever or stay with the stock column set up. At first, I wanted a curved floor shift lever like the 1959 Impala 4 speed transmissions. But, that took up valuable interior space. So, the genius mechanics and installers at C&O made modifications to the arms of the column shifter to attach to the shifting levers of the Stick Hydramatic transmission. It looked clean and worked well on manual and automatic shifting. Since the 58 Impala was already a stick shift from the factory, the small silver plate was still covering the shift points, in the column shift identifying location.
My avatar car still has the Drag Fast 4 speeds decal in the quarter window, along with the old "Autolite" GT40 decal that used to come as a fall-out in the magazines Bet nobody else has one of these
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