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After reviewing pics of the 2 cars I am soon to pick up, can you tell me the what the nice find might be?

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you mean other than the wood wheel, shift knob in glove box and what appears to be interesting documentation?
 
An odd location for a radiator, too. :wink:
 
DrEntropy said:
An odd location for a radiator, too. :wink:
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Side draft...
 
Let me help out a bit - It's straight.
 
Close.
 
OD in there...straight shift lever
 
Looked to me someone had put a four synchro box in it. :shrug:
 
tony barnhill said:
OD in there...straight shift lever
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Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Lets hope it works.

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I haven't figured out why the early OD transmissions have a straight shift lever and the standard transmissions have a curved shift lever......seems they would both use the same shift lever.
 
All radios in the US were dealer installs....& none of them were made by BMC or BL.....the distributor had faceplates made up to fit several types of radios.....open one that has BMC or BL & you'll find whatever brnd the dealer/distributor bought.
 
Someone mentioned paperwork in glove box. It's for a Boman Model FM6A radio. I did not get a look at the label on the radio though so I am not sure of what it is.
 
Tony, I think the overdrive had the shifter coming out of the hole in the tunnel further back than the non O/D cars. The shift boot is reversed on O/D cars. That would get the shifter in the same location on both regular and O/D cars. Bob
 
bob67bgt said:
Tony, I think the overdrive had the shifter coming out of the hole in the tunnel further back than the non O/D cars. The shift boot is reversed on O/D cars. That would get the shifter in the same location on both regular and O/D cars. Bob
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You may be right, Bob....but remember, if you have an early OD main shaft, you can hang an OD unit on a standard transmission....& out in my garage are about 6 OD trans, 1 or 2 being early....standing the early ones next to the standard earlies doesn't show any difference in shifter location - gazing at them side-by-side.
 
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