No Transmission cross member

[Lobo'74]

I've had my '67 for four years and worked slowly but steadily to improve it. PO was a "mature" guy (thats a nice way of saying mid 40's and up) and had been building hot rod engines for decades. He then found a body to put 'em in, cleaned it up, dropped in the engine, drove it, sold it and went on th the next project.

Engine is GREAT. Bored .30 over, Sportsman II heads 72cc chambers, stainless steel valves w/ 2.02 intake and 1.6 exhaust, heavduty valve springs, Crane double roller rocker arms, double roller timing chain, Melling HVHP oil pump, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold, Edelbrock 750 cfm 4 barrell, etc, etc. He did a great job on the engine but I keep finding where corners were cut on the body.

Here is the latest . . .

After 4 years the stock Saginaw 3 speed (from the '79 C10 donor of the 4 bolt main 350 that was rebuilt) and clutch went bad. I have in hand a Saginaw 4 speed (rebuilt) to go in it. Same exact case so it should be a simple swap out and new clutch. I was under the truck looking at the antique floor 3 speed (a true hot rod antique Fenton shifter) to find the mounting points to see which Hurst Comp shifter to put in. I noticed that the flat pad on the bottom of my transmission was hanging in the breeze, unlike the part that the Hurst instruction sheet showed as attaching to the transmission with two studs pointing down to go through the transmission cross member. I looked VERY closely and realized that I have NO TRANSMISSION SUPPORT CROSSMEMBER. The tranny is bolted to the bell housing but I see no horizontal support of any type. Hmmmmmmm. Could that be why the clutch and tranny need to be replaced at the four year point? (LOL)

OK, who (if anybody) sells these, and how fast can we get it to central Virginia? I believe it is the stock item shown in the factory assembly manual as the "SUPPORT - TRANS (PS200 W/M35)"

No local (or close) "salvage yards" have any 67-72 trucks to harvest from.