Ragman, if you think you are going to have a clearance problem, you can get a shifter that was used on the 1980-1981 Malibus. (we called them an Iraqi Taxi up here)as the shifter mounts at the front of the tailshaft housing as opposed to the back of it. The shifter rods look like a "S" just about. I have one of these on a Saginaw in my '40 Chev and it clears the factory bench seat in it with no problems.
