70 Charger 500 steering column weirdness...

[Triplegreen500]

So, my 500 is (of course) buckets and console interior, with a floor shift auto. I was looking under the hood the other day trying to find casting numbers on the exhaust manifolds (any tips?), and noticed the steering column has a linkage on it, going to the transmission. Is this for a column shift?? The interior has zero column shift parts - no PRNDL on the column, no missing lever, no rotating collar. Is this just the ignition interlock?

 

[davek]

it is your steering lock out ,one year only.

 

[davek]

 

[Triplegreen500]

Yup, that looks like it. Very similar look to my '72 Satellite column shift setup in my wagon...but I disconnected that, when I put a B&M floor shifter in, for the reverse-manual 727.

 

[Kern Dog]

When I converted mine to a Tremec 5 speed...

My original floor shift column had this linkage in place.