shiftknobs

[FB71]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[91blufestiva]

very nice everyone. but it is still 3 days until the pistol grip one goes off on ebay, so itll be a little while yet

[bobstad]

Grabbed my knob?(the useless punk!)

I had made an acrylic gear shift knob in junior high shop class for a '64 MG 1100 that was my mother's car she never got to drive my father liked.*

The shift knob for the MG got stolen by one of my younger sister's hood boyfriends who also stole a navy pea coat I had.(?)

I can almost understand the pea coat, but the shift knob?

It was made of laminated layers of clear, black, and white acrylic plastic; glued together then buffed on increasingly fine abrasive buffing wheels until the clear layers were transparent.

It was almost square though a little taller than wide, and tapered a little to the bottom with all the corners very rounded. About 2 1/2"-2 3/8" tall and beautiful.


*She got the '61 Country Squire with a Thunderbird 427 she'd lugged into carbon death lethargy by the time I was 16 and could drive it-what a tub...the front-wheel drive MG was great fun, the most advanced suspension ever built short of the recent computerized F-1 cars banned because they went too fast.

[Festiva_tunner]

[Gomez]

hmmmmmm, I like the black console. gives me ideas

[BigWheel]

Tell me about the pool ball shifter knobs. How'd you do that?

[BigWheel]

Pool Ball Shifter

im using a red #3 pool ball. like this one:

http://www.pbase.com/image/35447709.jpg

Sasquatch, where did you find this shifter?

[Futurefesty90]

i got an original hurst mini t-handle for vw bugs. i need theads.

[sasquatch]

Sasquatch, where did you find this shifter?

i found the pic on google. but i got the ball from my friend (real billiard ball) and just drilled a hole in the bottom of it and sort of forced it on there... it works good, i like it