Shifing set up

This is my Rat Fink shift setup

That's Disturbing!

Thats good......Right?

Getting my head around that.. makes the pattern backwards at the shifter?

I don't think anyone's going to try to take that for a joy-ride! One look at that shifter and the thief will go,

Hey Digz, you are correct

Thank you Donnie

There is no end to what you can do to our vans,,,,,,,,,,what trans is that?

and where did it come from,,,,,,was it hooked to an engine that was put into the van,,,,,,,where did the shifter come from,,,,,,,how did that whole set up end up in the van?

Okay, NOW I get it.....It's an "H" pattern stick shift trans with the tower coming through the floor.... The left-to-right rotation is for choosing the gate and the horizontal shaft slides longitudinally in the bearings for front-to-rear in each gate......Clever and functional! Kinda rat rod!..... Same gears front to rear but the gates are swapped side-for-side, correct?
Truly "Rat Fink" would have been one continuous stick though!....
Sick!

Ya Donnie The trans is an sm420 4 speed truck trans Bolts right up to the chevy bell housing And yes AzDon the forward and back gear selections are the same however the left and right selections are backwards. Closest I could come to a true Rat Fink shifter

Oh ya Donnie I built it all from scratch

now thats what I wanted to hear,,,,,,thinking outside the box,,,,,,,,,so what came 1st,,,,,the trans, then you found a way to shift it, you had a shifter, needed a trans for it,,,,,,,,I doubt you seen another van with that set up and thought yours would look cool with one,,,,,,where did you get that shifter,,,,,,,where do they use it?????

Cabover big-rig trucks were ALL shifted with variations of this design where the twist of the shaft selects the gate while the forward/back on the rod selects between two gears....
As soon as I saw the pic of the shift tower coming thru the floor, I knew exactly what was going on!

Now that's what you call "Driving"!!! Not for the faint of heart!

I like it cause it reminds me of the "Mouse Trap" game we used to play as kids...sooooo very long ago

I guess next time, you can take a piece of rebar, weld it to the shifter stub, bend it out the side doors, then under the passenger seat, over to the parking brake and then up,,,,,and you got yourself a normal floor shift,,,,,,

Comon Donnie you know hat would never work But seriously I built it from scratch I found out a SM420 truck trans bolts right up to our bell housing and then I built the shifting mechanism Oh and by the way it works CCOOLL!

I was thinkin' . . . If you mounted your slides/pivots on the ceiling, wouldn't your shift pattern be correct, even if your shifter is upside down??? OOOh, that made my head hurt.

jrdunn96!!!!! your a bleepin genius Damn I wish I had thought of that. Awe man..... I wish you hadn't of said that now I'm thinking of changing it.

Well Doug, I'll tell ya.  Bleepin has been used in the proximity of my name many times, but genius hasn't to my knowledge.  Another user on here "Dan Nachel" did a bellcrank setup on a 5 speed.  Here is a link.
https://vintage-vans.forumotion.com/t26497-5-speed-trans-in-64-e-100
Most of the pix are already gone, but it sounded interesting.  I probably would "chicken out" & go with a cable setup.  I've been wishing to get a 5 speed manual for my Epup.  But I say do it how YOU want.

Jim