..............anybody notice the picture of the dash ... the gear
shift comes out of the dash, not the floor! kinda like
some of the new hondas and subarus.

what is this world coming to!?!??.............

It's coming back 35 years to the shift selector system on MANY US cars
that was outlawed by the Feds (made all models copy the GM 'PRNDL' setup
starting about 1967.  The 'typewriter' transmission worked great, loved
it in my early Valiants.