Line Lock- Quality?

i put hurst line lock in my dart back in 1969, removed it in 1976, installed in my duster in 1976, been using it ever since, car has over 4000 runs on it, with stick shift ,
They don’t make em like they use ta. I can only imagine that they aren’t the same any more. I should’ve kept one of my old ones. They probably are still working.