If A230s were in those cars, they were transplanted.
Yeah that pretty much what they were used for. Apparently him and his work buddies all owned various 70’s mopars and the garrage in the city would be a wall of dusters and darts. He intended to keep it forever since his previous car had been a Vega with horrid oil eating and while he had the duster a cord Taunus MK 2 US version that he hated and wanted to pass the duster onto his grandchildren eventually but it only lasted 6 months in the driveway before my grandma secretly called the towing people. Now I’m interested in rebuilding one very similar so that’s why I’ve been asking all these questions.
Aren't those A230 ?? Wait! you are right again, those early 3 speeds have the top cover and the A230 has the side cover and a syn first gear plus a provision for the floor shifter. The Toad is getting the A230 and a hurst shifter, and it all sits under a tarp wait'n for some some attention!!! I forget what number they call those early ones.
I don't know what dictates what transmission they got, but the early ones were the A903, like Vixen has and the A745.The A745 is what came in some of the Max Wedge cars. They also have the top loader plate, but are obviously much heavier duty. The A230 has a very similar looking case to the A833. It's a very stout transmission for a three speed.
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.
