You have a good eye. Yeah, back when I first got it it was an empty shell. someone had chopped part of the tunnel out with a torch, and then crudely repaired it.
they had started on one of those 3-point roll bar installs, and gave up.

I did a slightly less crude repair to the tunnel.

There's no fender tag and no build sheet, so it will never have a pedigree other than whatever I do with it.

You know, I collected alot of the parts to return it to manual someday. Never did the work.

If I ever make it over, maybe I should re-do it with a tunnel more friendly to manual trans, just in case.
Maybe even enlarge the tunnel, since I collected a couple T56s too, which are a nice highway trans with 4-series gears
although not easy to shift at the drag strip.

I'm much more of an automatic trans person I guess.