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Apr 30, 2000 · The Big Three then responded with "four on the floor" during the muscle-car revolution of the '60s and '70s. Anyone growing up during this period who wanted to gain stature in the crazed,...
Oct 9, 2020 · What Was the Final US-Market Car to Get a 4-Speed Manual Transmission? The good old four-on-the-floor was an automotive mainstay for decades. Here's the last one you could buy here.
- Murilee Martin
- 1965–66 Oldsmobile 4-4-2
- 1966 Pontiac GTO
- 1967–68 Camaro SS 350
- 1967–69 Impala SS 427
- 1968–70 Torino GT
There’s some irony with the 1965 4-4-2 because, just several months earlier, this special performance package included a standard four-speed, as referenced in its name (4-speed, 4-barrel, 2exhausts). Oldsmobile changed the definition for 1965 since a three-speed manual was the standard transmission behind the new 400/345, with a four-speed and two-...
The song goes, “Three deuces and a four-speed and a 389” but in 1966, when the GTO went from a performance package to its own model, Pontiac offered a column-shifted three-speed manual as standard. There was the option of a Hurst shifter on the floor, in addition to the four-speed and automatic. Even its big brother, the 2+2, had a floor shifter fo...
The 1967 Camaro was the first pony car outside of FoMoCo to answer the Mustang’s calling. Chevrolet did an admirable job but, curiously, it offered a standard three-speed on the column—something the Mustang never did during this era. Even the performance-oriented SS 350 (the only Chevrolet to receive the 350 small-block in 1967) came with the manua...
After the success of the Chevelle SS 396 in 1966, Chevrolet decided to apply the same formula to the full-size Impala sport coupe and convertible. The 1967 Impala with the Z24 SS 427 package became that manifestation by making Chevrolet’s biggest engine standard and offering a dose of image thanks to “distinctive hood ornamentation” and the “dramat...
Ford pulled some funny moves in the 1960s. In ’66, the Fairlane GT came with an S-code 390/335 standard, most famous being the GT/A with the Sportshift Cruise-O-Matic. However, in subsequent years, Ford demoted and decontented the GT and, accordingly, made the 390 four-barrel an option. The GT was rechristened a Torino starting in 1968, and the sta...
Jan 15, 2021 · The car is equipped with something apparently no other Ford car ever was and that is a four speed on the column manual. There were versions of a “four on the tree” offered at later days on Ford vans but never in a car…or did they.
One of the Very Last 4-On-the-Floor Cars Ever Sold in the United States. The 4-speed manual transmission once was the epitome of street cool, but had fallen on hard times by the time...
May 10, 2023 · The column shifter seemed like a clever concept because American cars were huge, and a big American car's big front bench seat could accommodate three people. Sports cars with floor shifters (3- and 4-speed) made some progress in the 1960s.
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Oct 22, 2020 · Rare 4-Speed-Manual 1995 Toyota Tercel Is Junkyard Treasure. The four-on-the-floor era died after 1996, so this is one of the newest 4-speed cars you'll find in a junkyard. By...
