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"Beefchips" (beefchips) 10/30/2020 at 16:42 • Filed to: None

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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Beefchips 10/30/2020 at 16:48

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‘68 ?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Beefchips 10/30/2020 at 16:51

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That automatic shifter does not look stock at all. Yet it still has a column shifter?

Beefchips > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/30/2020 at 16:53

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Got be somewhere around there, yeah

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/30/2020 at 16:54

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its blue...that means 72

Beefchips > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 16:56

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Oh snap didn’t notice that. Yeah, what’s going on here?? The plot thickens. Wonder if it’s just  a lazy conversion from stem shift to floor shift

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Beefchips 10/30/2020 at 16:58

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The larger brake pedal implies it was originally an automatic so not sure why a new transmission resulted in this lazy conversion. They didn’t even make a trim panel to hide the mechanical part of the shifter.

Just Jeepin' > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 10/30/2020 at 17:03

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Hey, they’re from my town! Fun in concert.

Beefchips > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 17:03

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Good sleuthing. Not so clean then.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Just Jeepin' 10/30/2020 at 17:05

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lol i can imagine

if they make their way over to somewhere near me ill be making the trip for sure

camaroboy68ss > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/30/2020 at 17:06

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Yes its a 68. 67/68 have the same nose, but 68s have side markers and the large rear window. Some 67 have the big rear, but most had a smaller rear window. 

camaroboy68ss > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 17:13

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mainly wanted the cool factor and drag racing look of the BM shifter, most dont run panels around them anyway. I know of a 67 Camaro that was a rare factory column shift and the did the same thing. 

camaroboy68ss > Beefchips 10/30/2020 at 17:15

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Nice 68, kind of looks familiar, lol. This is the factory Bright Blue with white top. Its just a base model C10. No trim down the side, around the front and rear glass, painted vent windows.

My 68 C10 is the next step up to the Custom trim level and then the top was the CST option. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > camaroboy68ss 10/30/2020 at 17:35

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Column shift. . . . . Camaro?

It just looks odd in an otherwise pretty stock looking truck and with the column shifter still in place. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Beefchips 10/30/2020 at 17:48

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Oh, I bet there’s something under the hood...  and a PowerGlide at the end of that non-stop shifter.

camaroboy68ss > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 17:48

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Its just lazy hot rodding.

yeah they had column shift Camaro’s in 67-69. My grandfather and I have actually flipped 3 of them. All 67's. Two of them were standard bucket seat cars which looked really odd, the third was a rare factory bench seat car so the column shift had to be ordered with that as well. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > camaroboy68ss 10/30/2020 at 17:50

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At least Covid hasn’t affected my sense of Model year...  even if I can’t smell anything.

kanadanmajava1 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 18:08

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That kind of shifter box is usua lly left just like that. I guess certain people like the looks of it.

Maybe the original column shifter has been rigged to do something else?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > camaroboy68ss 10/30/2020 at 18:16

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Why would you have a column shifter with bucket seats? Weird. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > kanadanmajava1 10/30/2020 at 18:17

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Probably just left for reasons. I doubt it does anything besides get in the way. 

camaroboy68ss > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 18:30

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older couple might have ordered the car new and preferred a column shift, or someone wanting to take the car to “lovers lane” and now doesn’t have a shifter in the way

MM54 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 18:30

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At least when I put a 4-speed in my chevelle I took the handle off the column shift. Now it’s a manual (floor shift of course) with a needle on the dash indicating “Park” all the time.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > camaroboy68ss 10/30/2020 at 18:31

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One of those seems more likely than the other but that's an interesting possibility. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > MM54 10/30/2020 at 18:32

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Just seems lazy to leave it, doesn't it? They didn't even bother to integrate the shifter well. 

onlytwowheels > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 18:51

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https://www.holley.com/products/drivetrain/shifters_components_and_accessories/automatic_shifters/pro_stick/parts/80706

MM54 > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 10/30/2020 at 19:20

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Should just be a pin to remove the handle; anything more requires swapping the whole column in an understandably “no thanks” level of effort. The aftermarket shifter just kind of hanging out there is a style thing, some people think it looks good (I’m with you though in that it looks incomplete). Benefit of the doubt, we’ll go with this is one of the first test drives the owner has taken with the new trans setup.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > MM54 10/30/2020 at 22:46

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I think it looks lazy and discordant. I don't like it and the rest of the truck isn't even drag inspired.