Just a few words of caution about basics on the older transmission/shifters---------Over the last few years, every one of the earlier floor shift 4 speeds that I have been under had some grossly screwed up shifters-------neutral gates weren't aligned, trans arms on backwards or wrong position, missing bushings on the arm ends-----------and when properly serviced with new bushings, aligned neutral gates , arms installed right location and proper direction, they all shifted very nice----not super short throw, but very positive feel and no missed shifts-----------


And then , there were the old column shift 3 speeds that didn't have syncro first gear---but you could put it in reverse and after getting a good roll rearwards, shift from reverse to second and then low, dump the clutch, floor the throttle and burn rubber like there would be no tomorrow-----------of course just the right rear (before posis)