About the rarest thing I've ever encountered in a Challenger was a 1970 440 R/T that had the shifter mounted on the column. As far as the kid who owned it at the time (obviously not the original owner), it had come from the factory that way -- no consol and the shifter on the column. It certainly appeared to be a factory job. Fortunately, he didn't intend to change it, since it was so odd. The car DID run like a bat out of hell, too.