Butters "Winter Upgrades". . Starting a Little Early

DionR said
I've been ruminating on your desire to keep the bench. Maybe you have already given up on it, but I keep thinking about it. Then I tripped over an add for a Lokar shifter that incorporates an electronic rooster comb for shifting electronic transmissions like the 6L80E and it sparked an idea for. And no, they don't show anything for an 8HP.

What if you left the column shift mechanism in place and mounted the floor shifter for the 8HP someplace remotely and shifted it using a cable off the column shift arm? You would have to remove the detents in the 8HP shifter and wouldn't have access to the +/- shifting but maybe it would work?

Just an idea.

I considered doing something like that with a dial. Space is always a battle with these cars, as you know. Also thought about using a dial behind the dash with an extension rod attached to it, so the rod would poke out the dash.. Put a stock bezel and knob on the rod, so it appears to be just another dash switch of some kind. Still a rotary, just with a better look.

Blake at Sublime, really liked a stock ish console idea that I was working on but I just couldn't accept it. It just looked wrong. I think the shape is most of the problem. Then he said he had an idea.. Just do a boot like "Justin" did. The difference is that my shifter will appear to be a stock 69 shifter instead of the pistol grip and the crazy long throw.