IMT shifter time period
 

On the IMT 4 speed shifter, what time period did they use the shifter you had to lift and pull left to go into reverse? Thanks Steve

my moms brand new t top trippple black '78 berlinetta had that shifter

Scott

I know that many Chevrolet cars had an ITM shifter from new. Also some of the lesser performance Pontiacs of the early to mid 1970s era had them.

At first the 2nd Gen Camaro: SS and Z/28 option cars came with a Hurst shifter from the factory. Around 1972 or 1973 they decided to go with a cheaper ITM shifter. Same with the Nova and the Chevelle, 73 and up. Base model Camaros in the mid to late 1970s those cars used an ITM shifter (both 3 and 4 speed manual transmission).


The '73 Grand Am, some of those had an ITM shifter and others had a Hurst. I think in '74 Pontiac decided best to go with the Hurst 4 speed shifter for all of the Grand Am cars.

I ordered a new 78 Z28 with a 4 speed (M21 and it had a Hurst shifter) I wish I had kept the car. It appears that a little over 15,000 were made

It may even be rarer than that !
as the muncies last year was 1974 I think or 75

Agree with Pete, my previous '72 Z28 had its original ITM 4spd shifter. In the late 80's when I rescued it. replaced the sloppy ITM with a factory Hurst 4 spd shifter out of a '74 Formula, wish I'd kept that Z,

In the 90's, cut up a really rusty '73 LeMans Sport Coupe w the GT package. It was equipped w its original Saginaw 4spd & Inland shifter, tach & gauges, 3.08 posi. Drove numerous 4spd '77 & 78 Z28's when they were only a few months old, two were GMAC repo's, others were friends new cars. Remember the '77's also had the lift feature for reverse. Have a local friend who bought a 4spd '77 Z28 new & put it away, I believe he will concur. '78 & 79 Z28's I've parted on had same Hurst shifters as late '70's T/A's, be interesting to see what a 350 Saginaw 4spd 78 Camaro would have.

I agree with post #6 above. In only one or perhaps 2 model years in the late 1970s Chevrolet decided to speck out a Hurst shifter for the Camaro Z28 cars with a Borg Warner Super T10. That shifter and linkage was the same as was already being used by GM in the Firebirds. As far as I can remember all the other 2nd Gen Camaros if the car was a 3 speed cast iron or a 4 speed Saginaw, those cars all got the ITM shifter.

An original Chevrolet dealer showroom sales brochure; that or the parts book should firmly identify what year or years in the late 1970s that the Z28 (with super T10) got a factory Hurst shifter.