Plenty of answers, and thanks to everyone who responded.
My first driver was a manual trans behind a V8, and I miss driving it. So
with a car in need of a drivetrain I was curious how hard it might be to
find the setup for one of these. I'd imagine that most of the actual
conversion parts (pedals, clutch linkage, crossmember) will swap '60-'62
Chrysler, wagons to '64, and '62-'64 Dodge 880 series, which aught to make
about 8-10 thousand cars equipped. Transmission itself can probably come
from about any of the later big V8 cars so long as it has a shifter in the
right general position.
Does a shop manual show much of the setup? It must cover R&R clutch, trans
and possibly linkage adjustments.
Thanks!
Bill K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Watson" <wwatson@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Chrysler 1960-62 with manual trans?
>
> The 1960-61 Chrysler Windsor, 1961-62 Chrysler Newport and 1962 Chrysler
> Sport 300 came with a 3-speed manual transmission as standard equipment
and
> had a floor shifter. The Chrysler 300 letter series had a floor shift
> option in 1960 (4-speed) and 1961 (3-speed), but both those years came
with
> a console which the others did not have.
>
> Do not have figures for 1960, but production for manual transmission
> installations for 1961 and 1962 :
> 1961 : 2.5% of 87,372 cars built in U.S . (~ 2,184)
> 1962 : 2.5% of 118,539 cars built in U.S . (~ 2,963)
>
> As a side note, Canadian-built 1960-62 Chryslers came only with the
> pushbutton Torqueflite
>
> Bill
> Vancouver, BC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:13 AM
> Subject: [FWDLK] Chrysler 1960-62 with manual trans?
>
>
> > Question: Anyone ever heard of or have seen a bubble dash Chrysler with
a
> > standard transmission?
> >
> > The only example I can think of is somewhere in a car magazine someone
had
> > an article test driving one of the 300's equipped with the 4-speed
> manual -
> > I'm not sure even they knew how rare one of those is, either a '60 or
'61
> > (they made all of what, a dozen? that way). It's been a while since I
saw
> > it to even remember the mag, but it was old enough all the pictures were
> > black and white - Special Interest Autos maybe. Has to be old too
because
> > as I recall they weren't too afraid to really drive the car and see what
> it
> > could do, which left the writer pretty impressed with it.
> >
> > The reason I ask is, supposedly they were available as the base
> > transmission, but where did they put the shift lever? That gauge pod
> > doesn't give you much room for the usual column shifter, my Chrysler
book
> > makes a comment about that. The 300 got around that with a console and
a
> > floor shifter. Just curious how it was set up and just how rare it
> might
> > be, if it existed at all -
> >
> >
> > Bill K.
> >
>
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