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Does anybody have one? I have only seen 4-Speeds and Powerglides.
They are out there if you look. My 1967 327/350 HP car has a 4-speed (no 3-spd offered for 350 HP engine), but around 400 or so 3-spds were installed with the300 HP base engine for 1967.
They're out there, I've known a few different 3 speed cars, but I've never owned one.
A friend of mine is doing a body off on a red 67 327/300 3 speed coupe. According to the tank sticker, the options on the car were white walls, AM/FM, Speed Minder speedometer, headrests and shoulder harnesses.
Another friend of mine had a 67 Marlboro Maroon 3 speed convertible, in the late 70's. Also back in the 70's, there was a guy who use to show a 63 340 horse 3 speed convertible, here in South Jersey, and there was a Lynndale 67 3 speed air coupe for sale at the Atlantic City Auction, about three years ago.
Not a mid-year, but I have a customer in Queens NY, that has a 69 3 speed convertible.
Back in the day I had a friend who's mother bought him a '63 convertible for his HS graduation. Standard 250 HP with a three speed.
Total options: ZERO.
This is a pic of my '67 original 3-speed when I bought it. It was ordered with a base engine, 3-speed, P/S, P/B, vinyl hardtop, positraction, speed warning, WSW (no radio). Who knows what went through people's minds when they ordered these cars?
In '67, the Saginaw cast iron 3-speed was fully synchronized in all forward gears.
Who knows what went through people's minds when they ordered these cars?
In the '60's there were still many, many people that liked to drive a manual tansmission just because it was a manual. A lot of these people were older people. Didn't care about 4 speeds, just manual.
The guy that bought my '65 new was a little less than 30 years old. His first new car was a '58 Ford, standard shift with a 300/352 engine. He then moved to a '61 Impala that was a 350/348 with four speed. By this time, he had picked up a wife and kid, bought a house and needed transportation to go to work. Bye-bye Impala.
He wanted a Corvette For his transportation. His dealer found the car way over in eastern Kentucky in the Applacahians. Prestonburg, Ky. Small dealership. Probably a stock order as the car had zero options. He bought it. Drove it to work and back to the National Guard Armory about four miles down the road for seven years and then sold it to me.
So, this is what one person was thinking.
PS. The Impala is still around. Belongs to a good friend of mine and is super sharp.
Weird shift pattern. I don't know if I could get used to 1st being in the location of 2nd gear. They should have made 'Reverse' where 4th would normally be located.
Weird shift pattern. I don't know if I could get used to 1st being in the location of 2nd gear. They should have made 'Reverse' where 4th would normally be located.
Weird only for the younger crowd. The shift pattern on a Corvette three speed is the same as most, if not all three speed transmissions from the 1920's on up.
Weird only for the younger crowd. The shift pattern on a Corvette three speed is the same as most, if not all three speed transmissions from the 1920's on up.
I didn't first learn to drive a car with a BW T10 or a Muncie box........it was either three on the column or three on the floor (surplus WW2 Jeep). Learned how to "speed shift" with these simple patterns as well.
That' is what the "real men" drove to work back in the day.
I would like to have a 67 Sunfire Yellow Coupe, Radio Delete, 3 speed, small block I would even take a 4 spd. If anyone sees one please let me know mikes54vet@aol.com I sold one a couple years ago to make room for my 54 Motorama Car. So now I am looking for one. you could even call me at 317-945-5121 I like things that are a little different then what everyone else has.Thanks
Last edited by Mike Terry; 02-14-2016 at 03:35 PM.
I didn't first learn to drive a car with a BW T10 or a Muncie box........it was either three on the column or three on the floor (surplus WW2 Jeep). Learned how to "speed shift" with these simple patterns as well.
That' is what the "real men" drove to work back in the day.
Larry
I had a couple of different "beater" cars I drove when I was young that had oddball shift patterns on them. One, a 1960 Simca Aronde that had a four speed on the column. I "think" reverse was away from the steering wheel and down. The four forward gears were just an H pattern on the column.
The other car was a 1941 Ford. Someone had changed the gearshift to the left hand side of the steering column, I guess so they could keep a better grip on their lady friend. That was back in the day of "necker *****".
I put a full race flathead in the Ford. Didn't look like much but it would fly.
The Model A Fords and the Ford-Ferguson tractor I learned to drive on both had the traditional old shift pattern. Even my first car. A 1951 Crosley.
Weird only for the younger crowd. The shift pattern on a Corvette three speed is the same as most, if not all three speed transmissions from the 1920's on up.
I can't remember the last time I saw a Simca...wow.
Somebody at Old Town last night had a 1952 AllState - still with 6 volt electrics and original motor...in unbelievable shape, original paint and upholstery. A real time capsule.
First one I'd seen in prob 40 years... Not many old timers there knew what it was.
02-13-2016, 03:50 PM
C2 - 3 Speed?
I didn't first learn to drive a car with a BW T10 or a Muncie box........it was either three on the column or three on the floor (surplus WW2 Jeep). Learned how to "speed shift" with these simple patterns as well. 
