Transmission / Overdrive: Alternative Auto floor shifter

[Studeous]

I was glancing thru a custom rodder mag at a bookstore and saw an add for American Shifter for $169. It got me thinking about a ford that's about the same as 60s Stude autos. Would a ford or aftermarket one work? Any with the same sequence of gears on the shifter indicator. I have a couple of 350 turbo shifters with cables that I could make work. May be backwards and I would have to spend time modifying to ensure it would only go into the gears I wanted when I wanted. Then wire the neutral safety switch, as my car was a manual. Anyone have any better solutions?

[Kurt]

What makes the flightomatic difficult is the PNDLR shift sequence. No aftermarket shifter worlds that well. I had a Hurst Indy on my car once and it looks kind of cool, but really didn't work that great. What I did do, that worked great was convert it to a power shift floor shifter. All you need is the power shift pieces plus the appropriate shifter tower. The hardest part of all is finding a power shift shift lever and installing it in the flightomatic case. It takes a little engineering to get a safety switch set up also, because the shift pattern is different between the power shift and the flightomatic, but it can be done. I had that set up on my 64 for a long time, and it worked great.