In one car I have a lokar style shifter, more of a streetrod type shifter works fine but if you want to bang gears I prefer a ratchet style shifter (versus a gate style) you push forward and it goes up one gear at a time eliminating shifting into neutral, a very positive action which I have in another car. The one's I have used are B&M's mega shifter and B&M's hammer shifter, the mega had a recall years ago (20) but other than that they have been rock solid and they come with (or use to) enough adapters to fit most transmissions and hook with a morse style cable only (meaning only a hole needs drilled and 4 bolts through the floor board) as the lokar style hook with a linkage and large notch in the floor board has to be cut as the shifter actually has brackets that bolt to the tranny. Gate shifters go forward and then must be pulled or pushed slightly sideways before going to the next gear, such as B&M's old Z gate shifter, this style was what a lot of muscle cars had factory equipped. Your choice but that racthet mechanism is simply slap forward and a spring returns it and slap again. Another benifit with B&M style vs lokars are they all have neutral safeties and a indicator built in which save a bunch of $$ also. Have fun