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Topic: Last 3 on the tree?
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bugo
Journeyman Posts: 17
From: Arkansas
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 01-14-2006 03:10 PM
   
What was the last year the 3 speed manual with a column shifter was available? I know it was still available as late as 1983. A little off topic, but what was the last car that was available with a 3 speed on the column? I have seen early 70s Mavericks with it, but nothing newer.
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MLariviere
Moderator Posts: 4120
From: Biddeford,Me.USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 01-14-2006 08:12 PM
The big push for OD's in trucks was about 1985, so I would have say that was probably the last. I haven't seen any that vintage with a 3man on the column.
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Whitson
Gearhead Posts: 110
From: Western Canada
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 01-14-2006 09:02 PM
Newest F100 I've seen with a 3 on the tree was an 82.
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bugo
Journeyman Posts: 17
From: Arkansas
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 01-14-2006 11:53 PM
My dad had an 83 F100 with the 300 six and 3 speed column shifter.
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Rory McNeil
Gearhead Posts: 1687
From: Surrey, B.C. Canada
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-16-2006 01:51 AM
I don`t know about Ford cars, but a friends father had a 1976 Buick Apollo (Nova bodystyle)with a 6 cylinder and 3 speed on the column. I guess on the Ford front, the last vehicle would have likely have been an Econoline equipped with a 3 speed manual. I know that Ford also made some vans with the toploader 3 speed overdrive trans, which was floor shifted, I don`t know when the last "real" 3 speed van was made.------------------
78 Fairmont 428 4 speed [email protected] 1.32 60 foot
80 Fairmont 302 5 speed 12.8@105mph
85 Mustang NHRA M/Stock 302 5speed. [email protected] 1.63 60 foot
59 Meteor (Canadian Ford) 2 dr sedan 332, auto
74 F350 ramp truck 390 4spd
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cookie_monster
Journeyman Posts: 22
From: south, central, us
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted 01-17-2006 10:18 PM
I had an '84 (mfg 8/83) F150 that originally had a 4.9/ 3 speed column shift. Good truck. Especially when I swapped in the 514/C6.[This message has been edited by cookie_monster (edited 01-17-2006).]
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TomP
Gearhead Posts: 6120
From: Delta BC Canada
Registered: Dec 99
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posted 01-31-2006 01:21 AM
Seems to me when i worked for a Ford dealer in 81-82 that the 80 Granada may have been the last car but pickups were quite common with 300/3 speed.
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