Is it worth repairing the shifter or buying a new Hurst or a new BW shifter.

Go with the Hurst..........big bucks, but better........

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The factory shifters were "Micky Mouse" at best. After a few years, they do tend to wear out. Is it worth rebuilding? Depends...for an NCRS/Bloomington car, yeah. For a car that you drive fairly often, and will never have judged, prolly not.
Go with the Hurst CP...you'll like it much better.

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That's what I have been hearing about the shifters.  Are the original GM shifters that bad where they hang up, get caught up in the gears etc. or just not that friendly shifting?

No...not from the factory. They just wear out. GM didn't put a lot of $$$ into ancillary components. "Do ya want better gear ratios, leather interior, A/C, OR....do ya want a good shifter that will survive? " GM figured most self-shifting fanatics would replace the shifter(on their own dime) anyway, so....why bother?
The original shifter WILL wear to the point of hanging up in 2 gears at the same time. It's fairly easy to get one that's worn just enough to stick the trans in REV., but the shifter will still move to the forward gears, resulting in a "locked in gear" trans.
It ain't JUST the Shark cars, either...ALL of the standard trans Corvettes from '57 up to the '89 cars will eventually have (factory)shifter issues.

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