Re: comp plus shifter. new vs old
A friend of mine recently installed one of these new Hurst shifters in a car and had to massage the holes before he could install the shift rods. I installed a Competition plus in our old Chevelle back in '70-'71 and it has over 150K miles on it and will go back into the car when it is done. Our 396 car has the Competition Plus that the original owner installed and it still works fine. I just adapted a bench seat Muncie handle to it. Best of both worlds. Just because something was good 30-40 years ago, doesn't mean that the stuff today is any where near as good. Some stuff probably is but there seems to be a lot of unhappy people trying to make this new stuff work. From my experience I've been farther ahead when ever I took the old stuff and freshened it up.
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Chevelleless after 46 years......but we did find a low mileage, six speed, silver 2005 Corvette. It will just have to do for now. 
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