Hi
I'm new to Mopar and this forum. I just bought a '63 Dart GT that was a 225 three speed column shift but converted in the dim dark past to an A833 with a pretty bad hack job on the floor.

The car runs/shifts/drives fine, but I really need to fix the floor; I've seen suggestions for AMD and Brewer for sheet metal or fiberglass tunnel humps. but the AMD humps are for '67 up cars and apparently Brewer lost the mold for the early A body fiberglass repros.

Does anyone here have a source for a used/repro hump? Alternately, it would be relatively easy to pull a mold from an original 64-66 A-body four-speed car provided the carpet/soundproofing was removed, then it would be simple to splash fiberglass copies, or use the mold as a template for a wood buck to hammer out alloy humps.

Is anyone out there with such a car up for an adventure? I'm semi-retired, done a fair amount of glass work in the past and live in San Francisco. I've got to believe there is a need/interest; I'm not trying to get rich, just trying to fix my car and contribute to the hobby/sport/passion/what have you.

Let's talk....


Marc in SF

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Open the pod bay door, Hal.......

Got a 65 4 speed hump sitting in my 65 Dart wagon that I'll be using for my 4 speed conversion if that will help.

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65 Dart station wagon slant 6 - now under construction
47 Dodge Custom 4 Door sedan
87 D100 Short Bed slant 6

Retired USAF 1966-1986
Retired US Postal Service 2004-2014

That sounds like what I was hoping to find! Am I correct in assuming that the humps were welded onto a cut generic floor pan at the factory (given that the majority of Darts were probably not floor shift cars)?

If that's right, then your hump (wait, that sounds weird....) would have been cut out of a scrapped car, probably with surrounding sheet metal attatched. That would be perfect for pulling a mold from.

Can we discuss logistics? If it's not too insanely expensive, I'd be willing to pay shipping both ways if you'd be ok with shipping it to CA....what are your thoughts?

By the way, any pics available?

Regards,
Marc

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Open the pod bay door, Hal.......

PM coming shortly

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65 Dart station wagon slant 6 - now under construction
47 Dodge Custom 4 Door sedan
87 D100 Short Bed slant 6

Retired USAF 1966-1986
Retired US Postal Service 2004-2014

The factory would take a torch to the floor and tack the cover in place. Then smear seam sealer all over the place. At least that was how my '64 GT was done.

The only difference between the 64-66 cover is that the shifter opening is round and the later ones are oblong.

Does this mean that the '67 and later hump as sold by AMD will fit a '63-66 floor pan? I thought the floor pan in later cars were much different

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Open the pod bay door, Hal.......

I know the metal one will with some rework in a 63-66, the tunnel is a little different and the curve of the hump is a little off, the 1975-1976 hump is a bit off at the back end due to the reworked driver's side floor pan for the cat convertor...

Thanks for the in the field report!
This good to know; I don't need "concours correct" fit, just want the shift boot and carpet to fit well, and the shift rods to clear the hump.

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Open the pod bay door, Hal.......

The later tunnels are slight bigger so that a A727 transmission will fit without using a BFH to "massage" the tunnel, you can also run a scatter shield with out cutting the firewall.

I would just use the later cover, mark it out on the tunnel and cut away. Then tack the new cover in and smear it with seam sealer. Most people would never now the difference.

How would it fit a 62 tunnel?

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Dave

1977 d-200 crew cab ex-army pickup wants it's /6 back
1962 Valiant 2 door, 170, three on the tree
1972 d-100 parts truck
80 volare wagon now a parts car