[jeffcoslacker]

It's very common on these. The lube used in the cable is dried out, and gets hard as a rock in below freezing temps. Sometimes it's all you can do to move the shifter.

Long as it's a column shift, there's probably nothing wrong with the shifter itself...sometimes floor shifters will get fulla spilled coffee and soda or whatever and stick pretty good, worse in the cold.

My '97 has had the difficult shifting when cold for years. I pop the clip at the adjuster in the middle of the cable under the hood (right by the driver's side strut tower) and pull the cable apart, spray some lube in there, and re-connect and adjust. After running it through the ranges fully a few times to work it in, after a day or two it stars to ease up and work right.

I've had to do it every few years for a long time now.