Unless you can shift like Ronnie Sox, automatic transmissions are simply more consistent when racing on the dragstrip. When it comes to street driving, however, most will agree that there's no better ...

Hurst is a name synonymous with Pontiac's most popular performance vehicles. Hurst supplied the chrome-shaft shifter found in so many manual- trans-equipped Pontiacs during the '60s and '70s, added ...

There are many companies in the automotive aftermarket that manufacture high-quality pieces for Mustangs. Over the years, the name Hurst has come to define bolt-on gear selectors for cars with manual ...

The Lightning Rod shifter in today's Nice Price or No Dice Hurst/Olds sports three levers that allow a form of sequential shifting for its four-speed automatic. That makes it a wonderfully weird bit ...

The Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds didn’t begin as an Oldsmobile model, but rather developed from George Hurst’s relationship with Pontiac. The whole thing began when Pontiac installed Hurst shifters in the ...

From the November 1997 issue of Car and Driver. George Hurst's first customized shifter was for a 1956 Chevy. It had shorter throws from gear to gear and a more precise feel than stock shifters. In no ...

Before he had a working relationship with Oldsmobile, and well before the creation of the Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds, George Hurst had a history with Pontiac. Hurst shifters were installed in the 1964 ...

It's been nearly 50 years since the legendary Grand Spaulding Dodge set up shop at the intersection of Grand and Spaulding in Chicago in 1963. For the next 15 years it was the epicenter of the Mopar ...