That name comes from when I had a 69 Mach1 Mustang back in 1987. It was an R code car with the 3.91 9 inch rear. 4 speed Toploader tranny and 428 motor. The stock shifter used to piss me off because you just couldnt bang gears with it. So I bought a Hurst pro shifter with new linkage, bushings and shims (Yes you had shims on shifters back in the day). It was an old school shifter,.. nothing like what you guys see today. Back then the tranny had linkage on the side of the transmission much like an automatic.



Once I got the Hurst shifter on there I was ripping through the gears. I got the car running 12's which was pretty good bragging rights back then. They said you couldnt power shift a Toploader yet I was doing it. My buddy nick named me "The Hurstmiester".

Then around that same time I bought my first computer. They didnt have the internet back then but there were local BBS lines you could dial into. You called them up and they gave you a login and password. You could not just dial into it and get your pwd emailed to you,.. there was no email back then. The sysop had to set you up on the thing first. Most BBS onle had one (1) node. That means only 1 person could dial in at a time. So if someone else was logged in you got a busy signal. Then some of the more popular BBS boards added 2 or 3 nodes. But realize that meant getting another phone line and back then there was only 1 phone company and to add another phone line with free local access cost $45 - $60 a month per line. To call another county was usually long distance. Especially if it had a different area code. But I became Hurst on the BBS boards and then later when the internet came along I used to do IRC chat all the time and I was known as Hurst. Most of these forum especially the car forums the name Hurst is always taken,.. so I just use Hurstmeister.

But yeah,.. Hurst are my favorite shifter. The simple little pot metal T5 Hurst short throw shifter 20 years ago is still one of the best ever made.

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