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Tonight I went on a mission. I'm trying to sort out what bench seat shifter handles fit what cars, and what each one looks like. Quite a bit of info online but from what I can tell, LOTS of wrong info on this topic, so I dug into the limited resources I have. 

From what I can find, from 64-67 Canadian Pontiacs and Chevrolet used 5 different bench seat shifter handles. 

3859889 used in 65-67 full size Pontiac/Chev. I know for certain what that one looks like, I have one in my car. 

The rest I don't know. If anyone has indisputable proof that a certain shape handle is correct for a certain model, I'd love to see a picture of it. 

3853135 used in 64 full size Canadian Pontiac/Chev, 64 Acadian Canso, 64-66 Beaumont/Chevelle.

3859345 used in 65-66 Acadian Canso/Nova.

3886574 used in 67 Acadian/Nova only with Saginaw 4 speed. 

3903078 used in 67 Beaumont/Chevelle. Not sure if it's Muncie, Saginaw or both. 

Again, any help you have that you know to be accurate would be great. And as a reminder, I am not looking for any pictures of bucket seat shifter handles for console cars or info on them. I'd like to keep this dedicated to bench seat shifters to see if it's possible to figure out what handle belongs in what models.

I found a picture showing 4 handles. The one on the left I am thinking "may" be heated/bent at the bottom and then painted silver so the shape may not be correct. The other 3 look to be original shape still. None of the 4 pictured are the 3859889 for the 65-67 B body. 

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Tonight I'm trying to identify this handle. 

Anyone have one like it in a car that they know to be an original?

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I should add, what I do know is it's NOT handle for any console shift car and it's NOT the correct handle for 65-67 bench seat B body Canadian Pontiac or Chevrolet.

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Carl I will share pictures of the ones I sent.  Here is a picture of my original 1965 Nova bench seat shifter.   Very close to your but a slightly different bend.   The Nova one seems to bend farther forward before it curves back.

 

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Here is a picture of my 1965 Nova bench seat shifter over top of another bench seat shifter that I think is the same as Carl's.

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Lots of good information about G.M. Shifter Handles.



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Looks exactly like the one I bought at the start of my conversion, being falsely told it was a 65-66 Bench.

Turns out it was a 63-64 bench handle.



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Mark, can you post a nice side shot of the one you have?

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Sold it a while back, thought it was like yours. Wrong.

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The guy that sold it to me still swears he got it out of a untouched 65 Biscayne bench car.

 



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Certainly not the original for a 65 B body, no question there.

It doesn't bend as far back as mine does it. I would say 5* more upright, maybe even a bit more than 5*?

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It also had a little bend to the right at the base.



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Here's for 65 and 66

 

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-- Edited by bjburnout on Tuesday 24th of November 2020 03:29:37 PM

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There was a 66 Impala wagon 427-390 4 speed bought new at Gorries in Toronto early in 1966.

Blue in and out it was truly a sleeper, owner lived in Scarboro.

Cannot say for sure the car came from Oshawa as Gorries did import from the US periodically.



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bjburnout wrote:

Here's for 65 and 66

 

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-- Edited by bjburnout on Tuesday 24th of November 2020 03:29:37 PM

 Yes, someone had posted that over on Chevytalk. Leigh knows his 66's pretty well.

 

 

 



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bjburnout wrote:

There was a 66 Impala wagon 427-390 4 speed bought new at Gorries in Toronto early in 1966.

Blue in and out it was truly a sleeper, owner lived in Scarboro.

Cannot say for sure the car came from Oshawa as Gorries did import from the US periodically.

 Boy, how cool would that be...... No idea where it ended up?



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Nope. And upon second sober thought I think it was a BelAir or Biscayne.



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