Lokar floor shifter

[77c10]

There was a Lokar in my 77 when I bought it. I switched from buckets to a bench after awhile. Once I changed seats the shifter would not go into first gear because it hit the seat. Long story short, I pulled it out and put it on Ebay and sold it for enough to buy a truck megashifter and still put some coin in my pocket. One problem was I was left with a massive hole in the floorboard from the Lokar. I took some aluminum and formed a patch panel and glued and screwed it done. That lead to my floor not being strong enough to support the megashifter so I took some 3/16" flat bar and reinforced it underneath where I drilled holes for the new shifter. Plenty strong now!

On a side note, I had never seen a Lokar shifter like that before and when I drove the truck before I bought it the PO told me it was a ratchet shifter. Bad mistake! I am pretty sure I dang near floated the valves during the test drive!