1973 Duster Build
If she likes the bench, I’d keep the bench! A friend of mine here in Asheville fixed a factory column shifter to work great with a reverse manual valve body. He took it apart and reworked it to where he started with it in the drive position, and all he had to do was slap it down into 2nd and stop. He then had to pull it back to go into 3rd. He monkeyed with the detents in the factory shifter to do all that. It worked good.