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Originally Posted by U47
I'm the original owner of a 69 with console A/T shifter. To the left of the shifter is the PRNDSL and on the right of the shifter rod stamped in the woodgrain painted in silver is the little tiny numbers 1-2-3, On the opposite side of L-S-D
I was just in the garage to confirm this, and if you wern't looking for it (1-2-3) you would most likely never know it was there it's so small
Don
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The 69 shifter was Pontiac's in house version of the Hurst dual gate (his/her) shifter that they dropped after 68. On the 69 version, it will function as a ratcheting shifter. When you put the car into low, pushing the shifter arm to the right as you push up into second gear, the shift arm will lock, not going further. Then you release the arm (letting it spring back to center), then do the same thing with up and to the right at the same time and it will lock again into 3rd (drive). The shifter was used into 70 and some Lemans sports got them as well, though the Lemans' usually had a little piece of woodgrain covering up the 1-2-3. Not sure why they'd want to dumb down the shifter for that application, it still worked as a ratchet shifter if you knew it was there. I don't believe the 71/72 cars got them but I can't swear to that one.