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1963 bonneville Safari rebuild

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64 kiwi boni

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Location: taupo new zealand
Name: chris
Gender: Male
Year: 1964
Car: bonneville
Trim: stock
Engine: 389
Style: Coupe
Color: white

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I installed the drive shaft today, to see what modifications I needed to do to the floor …

It was a perfect fit, how ever the u bolts that Brett supplied where 6mm too short !

I will get into him tomorrow

I then spent the rest of the day opening up the tunnel , and completly forgot about taking pics !

So watch out for next weekend !!!!

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Location: taupo new zealand
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I am of two mind about what to do about the shifter ! Option one is to use the ve Holden floor shifter and make a mount for it on the tunnel … keep in mind I am sticking with my factory bench seat …

Or …. Use the factory column shift and buy a cable kit to hook it to the 6l90e

The column way will look more factory and won’t be an issue with my factory bench seat … has anyone done a similar shifter ??????

10 hours ago10 hr

NOPE....never messed with a Holden floor shifter. Sorry

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My personal preference would be to do a column shift if you are keeping the front bench seat. A floor shifter and a bench seat can sometimes look like an awkward after thought. If you were going with bucket seats, the floor shifter would be fine, in my opinion

Besides with a column shifter you can have your boss next to you on date night or the grandkids when you go for ice cream.

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Location: Lost in Kentucky
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4 hours ago4 hr

Yup, what he said.

3 hours ago3 hr

Ditto. Stick with the column shift.

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Location: taupo new zealand
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Engine: 389
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7 hours ago, Frosty said:
My personal preference would be to do a column shift if you are keeping the front bench seat. A floor shifter and a bench seat can sometimes look like an awkward after thought. If you were going with bucket seats, the floor shifter would be fine, in my opinion
Besides with a column shifter you can have your boss next to you on date night or the grandkids when you go for ice cream.

HMMMMM ! very good points !!! cheers

Which is a better idea than the floor shift... next issue.... how do i do the manual mode ? Rick, did you hook up your 4l60 trans to a manual mode of some sort ?