Hurst street super shifter
Note that the Street Super Shifter is not the same as the Super Shifter. Both have straight shift rods, but the original Super Shifter rods are about twice as thick as the Street Super Shifter rods. Neither mount in the same place as the Competition Plus, and so they use a different adapter. In my case, I had to trim the chrome shift plate to clear the shift box. Otherwise, it all bolted in w/o any problem.
I put my Super shifter in my 65 Barracuda in the early seventies. My original shift box broke internally, and the Super Bee shifter I got out of a junk yard for $10 was worn out sloppy and would skin my knuckles on the 2-3 shift. Also was bad about hanging up on the 2-3 shift.
Super shifter was great after that. Had a much shorter handle so shifter travel was quite a bit less, albeit also took more muscle (Mom didn't like it). Couldn't use my original shift handle as it was angled wrong and would just about sit on the floor in fourth gear.
Eventually, the Super Shifter shift box crapped out too (my 65 Barracuda has more than 300,000 miles on it), so it got replaced by a simple Competition Plus box that you didn't have to push down to get reverse. That box bolted up to the Super Shifter adapter, and the beefy Super Shifter rods hooked to the Competition Plus box. (As an aside, I ordered a Super Shifter for my old slant six four speed 65 Valiant; it was the street version, with the wimpier rods, still worked very well.)
One day I was in Barnett Automotive in Atlanta, and saw a Hurst shift handle hanging on the wall that looked like it was curved in just the right place to work with my Super Shifter. And it was (sometimes I get lucky). So that's what I have now, original beefy Super Shifter rods, Competition Plus shift box bolted to the Super Shifter adapter, Hurst shift handle of unknown application. Black ball that looks almost like my original 65 shift ball, trimmed original 65 shift plate, homemade leather boot.
Note that the Street Super Shifter is not the same as the Super Shifter. Both have straight shift rods, but the original Super Shifter rods are about twice as thick as the Street Super Shifter rods. Neither mount in the same place as the Competition Plus, and so they use a different adapter. In my case, I had to trim the chrome shift plate to clear the shift box. Otherwise, it all bolted in w/o any problem.
I put my Super shifter in my 65 Barracuda in the early seventies. My original shift box broke internally, and the Super Bee shifter I got out of a junk yard for $10 was worn out sloppy and would skin my knuckles on the 2-3 shift. Also was bad about hanging up on the 2-3 shift.
Super shifter was great after that. Had a much shorter handle so shifter travel was quite a bit less, albeit also took more muscle (Mom didn't like it). Couldn't use my original shift handle as it was angled wrong and would just about sit on the floor in fourth gear.
Eventually, the Super Shifter shift box crapped out too (my 65 Barracuda has more than 300,000 miles on it), so it got replaced by a simple Competition Plus box that you didn't have to push down to get reverse. That box bolted up to the Super Shifter adapter, and the beefy Super Shifter rods hooked to the Competition Plus box. (As an aside, I ordered a Super Shifter for my old slant six four speed 65 Valiant; it was the street version, with the wimpier rods, still worked very well.)
One day I was in Barnett Automotive in Atlanta, and saw a Hurst shift handle hanging on the wall that looked like it was curved in just the right place to work with my Super Shifter. And it was (sometimes I get lucky). So that's what I have now, original beefy Super Shifter rods, Competition Plus shift box bolted to the Super Shifter adapter, Hurst shift handle of unknown application. Black ball that looks almost like my original 65 shift ball, trimmed original 65 shift plate, homemade leather boot.
