65' 289 C4 convert to 64 1/2 3spd Toploader?

Came across a good 64.5 Mustang 3spd Toploader with a 289 bell housing for short money.

Other than the flywheel, clutch pedal and linkage... how much work would it be to swap this into a 65' Chero with a C4 and bench seat?

 

I don't believe that trans will work with a bench seat, as the shifter is too far back on the tailshaft. But 4 speed top loaders often have both forward and rear shifter mounts cast in.

 

Thats a bummer. Its only $300.

 

64.5 and 65 bell housing bolt patterns are different. Somewhere in that time frame Ford changed them.

 

Yup, early ones were 5 bolt bellhousing, later went to 6 bolt, common with all 302's and 351W