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During its transformation to the Astra Coupe, Jay's car got this hand-made banjo-type wheel. Ostensibly this is the point where the column lost its shifter and acquired the large-diameter mast jacket. The gauges also migrated from the dash itself into the amoeba-shaped aluminum cluster around that jacket. Due to a pressing timeline, JF outfitted the car with latter-day Stewart Warner instruments; however, he was wise enough to keep the originals for future restoration.That's no ordinary floor shifter. It's the upper mast jacket of a manual-shift steering column, but it's been spun around and laid on its side. The shifter's little sister (on the left) is the lever that engages the pawl for the planetary-type overdrive in the Lincoln trans below. Like the fuel filler, the handles were machined from aluminum extrusions-or as Lil' John would say, billet. View Related Article
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