How about five on the tree?

[camrycurt]

Originally Posted by grancuda

I have been thinking of doing a 4 speed overdrive out of an ‘80s C10 and using my stock 3 on the tree. The shift pattern would be the regular H with 1st at the top left and all forward gears on the column. Then using a ’67 style parking brake lever (mines a ’72) make that lever actuate reverse. It would be a heck of a lot more fun to do the 1st to 2nd shift but I haven’t decided if the revese would be too much of a pain, you would have to go to neutral on the column then grab the sideways parking lever to go to reverse.

I think this is a great idea! I'd love to see someone do it. I don't think reverse would be that bad - you don't use it much anyway so it probably would be OK.

[ls1nova71]

If you're going to try it, do it to a tilt column, that'd be cool and couldn't possibly add any more difficulty to it.

[midniteblues]

These kids nowadays!!!! an my son says to use paddle shifters ha ha ha ha.... no!