Hello Jerry,
I have a Doug Nash 5spd in a 70. Believe it is the same as the Richmond tranny.
Using a stock M22 driveshaft, my convertable chassis had holes that worked for the crossmember.
The Hurst shifter for the 5spd mounted like a Super Shifter (high and offset to the drivers side), so the console would not fit.
I wanted the console because I don't race the car anymore. This is what I did to make it work. I had to use the "L" shaped piece form a Hurst Competition Plus shifter (where the stem bolts onto the shifter itself). I had the L piece cut off the Comp Plus, and welded onto the Doug Nash shifter. This allowed the stem to come up in the center of the tunnel, as opposed to next to the drivers seat. But the shifter was still "too high" up into the tunnel due to the way the 5spd shifter mounts to the tranny using a steel plate. The shifter bolts to a plate, which bolts to the tranny.
I lowered the plate mounting position on the tranny by redrilling it, thus lowering the shifter position.
The shifter now sits in the console, and has a muncie stem bolted to it (the munice stem had to be drilled to fit the Hurst bolt pattern).
It looks totally original from inside the car, and due to the wide range of adjustment on the 5spd shifter rods, it shifts great too.
Feel free to e-mail me if you have a question.
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Good luck, Joe.