A picture would be nice...

Here's some picture of the shifter from my 68 Barracuda . It needs some clean up work but it might help out a bit. One of the pictures shows the u shaped bracket at the front of the shifter. It appears the set up didn't change much.
Hope this helps.

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shifter3.jpg

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shifter 2.jpg

shifter.jpg

shifter3.jpg

shifter4.jpg

shifter5.jpg

shifter 2.jpg