Did not realize 3 speeds were avail. in E bodies..............

Bobzilla said

Does anybody know if there was ever an E body with a manual 3 speed on the column (or 4 speed for that matter)? I have never seen or heard of one, but this thread reminded me of an all original 68 Dodge Charger with 318 and 3 speed manual on the column that was on eBay some years back. I never new they offered a manual on the column in those either, and now I am wondering about these.

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I can't say I've seen one, but the parts to build one certainly exist. There was a '74 Charger dragged out of a garage here years back that was a 318 with the bolt-action shifter. It was supposedly the only '74 SE so equipped, but it wasn't unheard of in '71-'74 B-bodies. Those cars are extremely similar in construction to the Challenger/Cuda, with the main steering column difference being the longer "crush can" used on the E-bodies, although the '73-'74 B-bodies also had a rag joint in the shaft due to the rubber-isolated K-member.