Toploader shift rods

[LMH]

Some replica manufacturers change the transmission tunnel and floor panels (as opposed to an original car) to make a little room between the seats. Most replicas use a TKO transmission with a centered shifter where as an original car would have a side mounted shifter. You can see it on an original car that the shifter is off center. That might be what's going on here.
Larry

[rsk289]

Alf,
The shifter bracketry sits in the same place on a T10 as it does on a toploader.
What you have in the photo is very common to a lot of cars. Many of the cars I have seen, including originals, are so tightly packed at that point that modifications have been made to allow a little more clearance. Replica manufacturers tend to make the floorpan in that area work as a set of neat straight lines, which will allow the much more common T5 or Tremec or whatever to fit OK, but not the toploader/T10. The originals I have examined here have either more room or have modified floorpans to help with clearance. I actually cut and reshaped the shifter levers on my car when I had the toploader in there, which worked perfectly - and when I switched to the aluminium T10 I modified the floorpan and did some minor panel beating on the trans tunnel to accommodate it. I think your drivetrain is mounted correctly.
This problem isn't new to replicas or originals - these are all handmade cars with plenty of variation.