1976 three on the tree question

CudaFactHackJob said

Reminds me of a weird car I came across last year; about a 63 Fairlane with a bone stock 4-speed on the column. It looked like a three speed shifter, but first was where reverse usually was, and it had a pull cable under the dash for reverse. And I thought the Saab Sonnet with it's 4-speed column shift was weird enough.

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How funny my grandpa had a friend(don’t rember his name) who apparently owned a shot and preferred Column to stick and would build insane linkages to get multi gear floorshift boxes to be colum shift and he apparently would usually rig a lever next to the parking brake. My gramps thought he was nuts and unfortunately I never got to meet the guy as he passed before I was born. He was supposed to convert my grandpas duster to one of the fancy 4 speed floor shifters and spice up the slant but died before he could work on it.