the trans bracket is silver cadmium and the rod is black phosphate on the originals I have
Back many years ago I found out we never received the shifter stabilizer bar set up with our 68Z, and when I started to look for one, boy those shifter stabilizer bar/brackets can be elusive as there are two brackets and three different bars. Joe assisted me a few years ago with some detailed items and expertise so a huge thank you Joe but wondering about the stabilizer bar as on ones I accumulated they had no traces of phosphate! Maybe the three I had were not the norm! For sure our shifter rods were all phosphate and the two stabilizer brackets were clear zinc (silver) or silver cad.
This is an example of bracket and rod off of a big block shifter that was a taken off and seemed totally original. Note how the finish on the rod and bracket have a similar look.

After some evaporust and cleaning-

Difference in the two brackets! Bracket on left for Muncie and on right for T10.
