I thought you Ford guru's knew about those kind of things. Once Henry found something that worked, it stayed around in one form or another practically forever.
The 73 F-100 I sold about a year ago had a very butchered shift collar on it when I got it. I had an extra 66 Mustang column sitting around so I took the collar off the 66 and with a little massaging it adapted quite easily to the column on the 73. It was hard to tell it wasn't factory.