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06-07-2024, 08:21 AM
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"Tail Gate Best Seat In House"
 
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This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
An old friend of mine and myself were discussing the 3 on the tree shifting .....he brought up when he was dating his wife (and another girl before her) he was driving cars with 3 on the tree and bench seats. In those days, before seat belts, it was common for her to sit in the center of the seat, and he would have his arm around her while he drove. He would step on the clutch and she would do all the shifting. Worked really well.
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06-07-2024, 08:26 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
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This one was a three on the tree, until I converted it to four on the floor. 1980 model. K
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06-07-2024, 08:51 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
Those old vinyl bench seats worked really well for what we called "come closer corners"...
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06-07-2024, 09:31 AM
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06-07-2024, 10:38 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
Chromed, and highly-polished glove box doors in my 55 Belair....
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06-07-2024, 11:33 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
What I liked most about 3OTT was when (not if) you got stuck, it was soooo easy to rock it between first & reverse repeatedly until you got unstuck.
Not that it ever happened to me.....
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06-07-2024, 12:13 PM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
Yep, been there done that. I liked Shifting my 4 Speed into 2nd and 4th with Her setting Next to Me. LOL. Those were the Days
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06-07-2024, 02:10 PM
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"Tail Gate Best Seat In House"
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06-07-2024, 04:04 PM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
Before my time, and I'm no spring chicken.
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06-07-2024, 05:04 PM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
I started driving later '75, still tons of three on the trees out there. My first 57 Chev started out as three on the tree till I converted to floor shift with a Hurst Mystery shifter.
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06-08-2024, 10:52 AM
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06-08-2024, 12:41 PM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
3 ott were fine until the column linkage got stuck between 1st and 2nd. Always in the rain or cold. I would be guilty of swapping to a floor shifter when that would happen often enough.
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06-08-2024, 02:53 PM
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06-10-2024, 08:05 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
My Dad had a Falcon station wagon with 3 ott..Then he got another. He loved his Fords.
When he got a 72 pinto with a floor shift he used to let me shift. I thoght I was the cat's ass. My first truck was a 70 c10 converted to the floor with cheap hurst shifter. It was not the best. |
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06-10-2024, 08:45 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
My 60 Tbird has three on the tree with overdrive . Very rare combo in a high line car . No bench so the girl would be straddling the center consol . Only pic I have on my phone
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06-10-2024, 02:49 PM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
I could be wrong but I believe the last 3 on the tree came off the assembly line in 1984, on the GMC assembly line. Hold your breath, that was 40 years ago.
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06-12-2024, 05:56 AM
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Re: This will tell your age at the same time bring back memories
I bought a 69 C10 with a three-on-the-tree transmission back in the early 80's. Luckily the guy I bought it from went ahead and showed me how to get it unstuck when it hung up. I don't know how many times I had to jump out, open the hood and move that little lever on the column over the two years I owned that truck. Loved the shifting and truck otherwise.
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