This truck has what appears to be a 3-on-the-tree column mated to a Ford/Saginaw power steering box. (One of the power steering hoses is missing here.) I can't tell if it's been shortened to fit, but I will definitely be checking, as I wasn't aware power steering was optional with the column-shift 3-speed, and the only way of making them fit was to shorten the column by 2 inches. The previous owner must have misplaced the firewall mounting bracket, and just stuck the steering column through the firewall, and sealed the hole up with expanding foam!

The VIN shows this truck originally came with a 4-speed, but it's got a 3-spd column shifter and it appears the floorpan was cut with a hatchet to mount the 4-spd shifter. I'll have to figure out what happened here.

The driver's-side inner fenderwell of this truck was the galvanized '73-'79 style. Here we finally get to see that the firewall bracket will not work. The bracket used here is the mate to the fenderwell, and is narrower than the '67-'72 version. You can also see that the fenderwell appears to be pulled to the right, apparently to line up the two outer holes. If the previous owner had notched the bracket holes, he would have been able to use all three bolts. This owner also used the '67-'72 hood hinge by drilling new holes on the inside of the fenderwell.