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Column Shift
Was there a factory option for a column shifted 1966 GTO? I have found a 66 GTO I'm interested in but I haven't seen a column before.
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Automatic? Yes if you didn't get a console. Manual no there was not.
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While not offered outright you could pay extra and have one installed.
Very little info and even fewer known cars out there, but they do exist.
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Wasnt this on all automatics A and F-bodies? If no console was ordered you got it on the tree.
Last edited by Brewster; 06-07-2021 at 05:04 PM. |
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Mecum Kissimmee 2022 Lot F147.1
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Like to see the BHC for that?
The console has a code (472) but I don't see a code for a 'shifter' whether floor or column. Is that a 3 speed manual column shifter? (which would be column shifter)
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I saw that on Mecum also. Was news to me. I think you could pretty much get anything that you wanted back then.
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Regarding the block-off plates on this car. Pontiac took the time and effort to have a matching woodgrain plate for the console, but did not bother for the radio delete plate.
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Is that a factory radio block-off plate? I had an all original '65 Chevelle SS with one. I believe it matched the rest of the dash.
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What is even more interesting, those VERY FEW cars with heater delete used a woodgrain block off plate...
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Interesting to know. Probably pretty rare.
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No '66s had woodgrain Delete plates.
The one shown above was/is '67.
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Now if you was something rarely seen/found,
'66 Heater Delete/Block off.
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Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to just end up with a 3-speed column shift when he could've easily gotten the better 4-speed and normal 4-speed center console like everyone else. But I guess he wanted to be different. Must have been a big fan of block-off plates...
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