I'm hoping to get it to fit inside my factory console and ditch the hurst housing. I'm also hoping to put my stock mustang shifter handle on top and perhaps when I'm ambitious adapt the stock handle's lock out button to operate the OD switch. sneaky, he he he.
instead of putting the stock handle up top I cut the hurst lever off and welded my stock lever to it. that way I could use my lever's old lockout mechanism to activate a push-on, push off switch for the overdrive. I had to cut out a big chunk of the floor and make a rectangular "cup" to set the shifter down into so that it would all fit below the console. I've set the console back on top, (without carpet on the floor) and everything lined up exactly as I wanted. it looks EXACTLY like a stock shifter. going for as much of a "sleeper" as I can now. gotta get rid of the big tachometer on the column and find a little bitty one that will fit into the blank clock option spot on the dash. it's somewhere between 2 & 3 inches wide, small. also going to hide a shift light somewhere unseen.
Years ago, I was on the road with this country band. The steel guitar player was this crusty old fucker who'd seen everything. I told him about this Mother Trucker / The Mother Truckers thing, and he said, "Oh yeah, I was in Jizz Mopper. No, not The Jizz Moppers, though we did get to open for them once..."