day two shifters - Page 3

**mr.4speed** · #21 12-31-2012, 05:45 AM

Love that p&g shifter!!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/Can-I-Have-It.gif[/img]

**chevyandpontiac** · #22 12-31-2012, 04:01 PM

Here is a cool NOS Fenton shifter I have, It has the separate arm for reverse.

**mr.4speed** · #23 12-31-2012, 05:10 PM

Wow that's awesome! Never seen a Fenton with reverse loc out thanks for sharing! Keep the pictures coming guys
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**PxTx** · #24 12-31-2012, 05:39 PM

That Fenton is a pretty cool shifter. I loved the attention my vertigate used to get at cars shows. What's with the two shifters? This one looks like it would fit a console easier. Nice!

**67rs/ss** · #25 01-01-2013, 08:15 PM

Anyone have a 67-68 camaro hurst shifter forged alum.

**69 Post Sedan** · #26 01-01-2013, 08:27 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's interesting to know that Mr. Gasket had the first commercially available "straight-line" shifter and it won a prize at SEMA in the early Seventies when it debuted. The Hurst version was released about six months later. </div></div>

Mark, I have an article on the Ram Rod and from what I understand it was made years before but as you stated, it wasn't readily available until later on.

Below is a picture of my Ram Rod and boot.

Kurt

**mr.4speed** · #27 01-01-2013, 10:39 PM

nice kurt! have you noticed that the very early ramrods have a flat blade chrome reverse stick and the late ones have a round black stick.

**mr.4speed** · #28 01-01-2013, 10:46 PM

early ramrod

**PxTx** · #29 01-01-2013, 11:03 PM

What years are the ones with the chrome reverse handle? I don't know why, but I thought they were later ones

**69 Post Sedan** · #30 01-01-2013, 11:52 PM

Here are some pictures of the September Hot Rod magazine. It does have the flat reverse handle that mr.4speed mentions.

It states "The most recent new offering from Hurst Performance isn't exactly new to them. The in-line-pattern Ram Rod shifter for drag racers hit the dealers' stands in June of this year, but the first prototype was fashioned by George Hurst in 1959. That '59 model lay dormant for nearly a dozen years until the gang in Warminster Pa, decided to give the idea over for that relatively small segment of the shifter market who operate their four-speeds only over a sanctioned drag-strip."