1965 Buick Wildcat 4-Speed Components - Ebay

Hi Guys,
Not my stuff but posting it here for the forum. A seller on Ebay has a cache of 1965 Wildcat 4-speed parts for sale. See at the following link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-Buick...ash=item25e336adeb:g:Fv0AAOSwyYFZ8Qjy&vxp=mtr
Thanks,
Matt-

 

Ask one of the Wildcat guys, but I question whether the shifter is correct. A wildcat handle is short and stubby.

The owner appears to be a member here.

 

I was looking at the shifter also...the linkage ends appear to be 65 correct,but I am not sure. This set-up looks fairly complete as far as the hard to find stuff. My friend just sold a 65 last year because he always wanted to find a 4-speed car. Somebody out there has probably been looking for this stuff awhile.

 

I suppose most of the lever could be below the boot and not seen from above. Someone like Ted would know.

 

Here is a picture of a 65 four speed shifter posted by Ted.

If I read Ted correctly the picture of the shifter out of the car is from a Camaro.

 

Jim- that looks like a real one- as mine is Nice and tall.

 

I plucked that picture from your post on another site. I thought you said something about it being from a Camaro. My apologies.

Is the shifter lever in 64 Cat shorter or the same as a 65?

 

Here is the 64 Wildcat shifter:

 

63 and 64 had 2 - one non console similar to 65 and the one in the long console known as the horseshoe shifter- it is curved forward
making it pretty stubby - totally unique. For my 5- speed conversion I'm retrofitting the earlier version into the 65 long console.

 

The stubby, curved forward, handle, I thought, was used in 63-65. Why was the lever design changed?

 

No long console for the 4-speed in 65- no need for the stub!

 

OK, I blinked. He is shipping them Monday. Gambling very seldom pays off for me,,. rolled the dice on this one.

 

Nice Score!

 

The 4 speed parts went to the world's most likely person to use them in another Cat.

 

another plunge into endless project mania pool!