# Oldsmobile gearshifts

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** cutlass, oldsmobile\
**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774 "2009-07-21T23:34:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Accptr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Accptr](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Accptr)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/1 "2009-07-21T23:34:33Z")

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My mom’s neighbor has a 1999 Olds Cutlass and claims that when she bought it you could not buy a car with a gearshift on the steering column. I am willing to grant that this may have been true for the Cutlass with bucket seats, but certainly not a universal. Any support – especially references to photos – will be greatly appreciated!  
  
  
  
 (This started when my mom was telling said neighbor about another friend who currently has “pseudo gout” in her wrist, and was so grateful that her gearshift was on the column – which said neighbor responded was impossible.)

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**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/2 "2009-07-21T23:36:33Z")

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> but certainly not a universal.

What’s a Universal???

I haven’t seen a car with a column shift in years.

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**Author:** ![Accptr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Accptr](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Accptr)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/3 "2009-07-21T23:39:16Z")

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universal statement – as in no on-column gearshifts. These have probably gone the way of the bench front seats. Thanx.

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/4 "2009-07-22T00:36:59Z")

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Crown Vics and Grand Marquis have column mounted gear selectors to this day…There must be others…

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**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/5 "2009-07-22T02:32:56Z")

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I’m pretty sure at that point you could get a Toyota Avalon with a column shift and a bench seat, although they were hard to find. I am also pretty sure some Buick models had them at that point. Also the Honda CR-V’s had them, as did plenty of other minivans and SUV’s.

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**Author:** ![JayWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@JayWB](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JayWB)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oldsmobile-gearshifts/33774/6 "2009-07-22T06:02:12Z")

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I’ve had many a Taurus as a company car; every one of them was column shifted.

[http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1996-to-1999-ford-taurus-5.htm?photo=1684424&perspective=all#toptab](http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1996-to-1999-ford-taurus-5.htm?photo=1684424&perspective=all#toptab) This is a link to a 1996 - 1999 Taurus interior shot, with a column shift.