Here's a car on craigslist. Has 3 speed on column and bench. Did they offer a column 3 speed?? I know they di offer the 3 speed floor shifter, but not on the column.
http://ventura.craigslist.org/cto/1479986571.html

 

anything was possible back then

seller must be coordinated,though

with that price,he is smoking pipeful of crack while shifting

 

Kinda hard to shift without a clutch pedal. Seller doesnt know the term three on the tree isnt a column shift auto.

 

probably not even his car,looks like cell phone pics to me.

 

three speed on the tree ...

:rolleyes" ...

 

So then an 200R with a floor shifter is now a 4 on the floor right Kids now days go figure

 

could be they are unfamiliar with the term. a pseudo gear head that picked up on a phrase.

 

I can't stand "ersatz gearheads". LMAOROTF

 

Three in the tree now means three speed auto

 

3 on the tree

4 on the floor

5th under the seat

 

If it had an auto console shifter it would be a "three on the knee".

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

 

That's the way it looks to me too.
Nothing like advertising your ignorance......

 

All the literature I have shows the base 442 trans that year as the HD three speed manual with floor shifter (even with the optional bench seat). The four speed Muncie and the TH400 were the only trans options on the 442. Three on the tree with a Saginaw was the base trans on lesser Cutlii, but not on the 442. The HD 3 speed was the Dearborn trans supplied by Ford. I find it hard to believe that someone would go through all the trouble to special order a three speed column shift in a 442.

 

"Anything was possible" was simple not true when it came to factory offerings. What dealers could, and would, do is considerably more. But even then, "anything was possible" is an absolute that still isn't true, and thus meaningless but still misused statement.

 

I e-mailed him and it is an auto on the column. says he is firm on the price. In this economy it may be on the market for a while.
I had never seen a '69 auto on the column, but have seen a few '71/'72's that way.

Gene

 

When you ordered the optional TH400 on the 442 in 1969, the default was a column shifter, even if you had bucket seats. The console and floor shifter were extra cost options in addition to the cost of the AT.

 

I had an original 69 W-30 with a column shifted 400. I thought it was odd even then. That was 1989, 1990. Sold it in '92, ARGH!

 

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