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I am the proud owner of a '41 Coe(I assume)
From pics in the gallery the outside looks the same but I have seen a couple of pics of interiors where the shifter comes up ahead of a bench seat- mine has split seats and the stick is about halfway back between the seats, and directly connected to the tranny like a standard cab.
Did some years have different setups? Is mine not a 41?
Of course I was in such a hurry to teardown that I never took any "before" pics.

Longtrial, I am by no means an expert on the history of these trucks, but itseems to me that maybe the earlier models had the shifter between the seats like yours. Then they used a linkage setup to the hump over the valve cover where it connected to the shifter. This is the way it is on my 46. I will look through my books and see if there is some kind of time line for the shifters. I think some of the other brands in this era also had the shifter between the seats

Is it a Chevy, or GMC ?

I also am no expert, but it seems they could come either way.

My 41 COE has it between the seats. If you look at Tim Glace's 41(gallery), it has the engine cover shifter. Optional? and then eventually standard equipment in 46? My 42 COE has the engine cover style on it.

This is a good post for the pictures you wanted Bill. Here are the links. Let me know you received them. I left them big for ya!

www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/Cablebase.jpg
www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/Cablemid.jpg
www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/Cablemount.jpg
www.redemerconcepts.com/truck/Cablepull.jpg

Longtail, question for you. Does your shifter bump the seats when you put it into reverse? I think I'm having space troubles. Maybe you could post a picture of your seat with shifter if you have a chance.

Thanks tomecoe, My truck did not have anything on it when I got it. Especially that bracket on the top of the trans that holds the cable. I fashioned a reverse mechanism out of a choke cable and some small clamps. It works but I don't think it will last. I would rather have the right parts in there. Looks like I still have some parts searching to do. Now....if I only knew of somone who had a bunch of coe's sitting around.....

Thanks for the pic's they are what I was looking for.

Longtrial, didn't mean to side track your post.

don't know about the Art Deco COE's, but with the '47-'55 COE's the Chevrolets had the shifter linkage, & shift tower,with the full seat bottom, but the GMC's used the shifter straight out of tranny, with split seat cushion.

Mine is a 47 art deco gmc and it has the 4 speed tranny that comes up between the 2 seats. The only difference between the tranny and a non-coe tranny that I can see is the tower where the shifter goes into the tranny is a good 6" taller then a normal trucks.

Ive not seen an art deco that had the shifter attached to the floor cover over the engine, Ive only seen that on the adv. des. trucks.

Thats kinda interesting... Im gonna go peek through all my gmc books and take a look.

Jeff

Mine's a Chevy

Trans looks just like the one in my '40 standard cab- no taller tower.

Pics will have to wwait until I get things sorta back together.

I'm guessing that the shifter is gonna flail around some(come close to seat) judging by the distance from the tranny to floor and the size of the hole in the floor- which brings me to another question- how is the shifter booted(mines somewhere far far from here)? I'm guessing that it is similar to the standard cab only flipped over and hanging down????

Thanks for the responses, I'm sure I'll be back with more ?'s