Notice the clip, just above the clutch pedal arm? In the simulator I "learned" on in about 1980, they were "automatics." Then, at the end of the course, they said if we wanted to try a manual transmission, reach up under the dash an pull down the clutch pedal. This also unlocked the console shift stalk, from straight forward/back shifting to a gated manual shifter. Cool. I had already been driving a manual (only) car for two years. I'll show my classmates how good I am. Every time I accelerated and let out the clutch, the simulator said I blew the engine, and red lights came on! HA!
Anyway, that's why you see a clutch with an automatic column shifter. Although on this one pictured, does it change it to a three-on-the-tree? 🤪