Rough '69 Camaro Project, Interesting Options

[chris slawski]

Originally Posted by HawkX66

If you look close, it looks like someone just screwed a trim piece to the original tunnel. A lot of people think the jagged edges of an original assembly line torch cut hole isn't factory.

edit: just noticed the two rivnuts and the shift cable hole from an auto are there. Yup, auto tunnel.

So only the automatics got the cable hole? As opposed to it being part of the floor pan stamping itself?

[HawkX66]

Originally Posted by chris slawski

So only the automatics got the cable hole? As opposed to it being part of the floor pan stamping itself?

Correct. I believe there is a locating dent in the stamping so they knew where to punch the hole. The hole is a clue, not definitive. I know my father punched the hole in my 69 when he converted it to an auto so he could drive it.

This ugliness is my original tunnel.