Let's see your favorite shift knobs

That bottom one reminds me of the old pedifile on Family Guy "who wants to go down to my dark, dark, basement for popsicles, and a massage?"

 

My favorite.

 

sorry if the interior looks messy, I have it torn mostly out right now, found this on Egay, ten bucks, made a threaded knurled insert, drilled and reamed the cue ball, then pressed in the insert with epoxy on the knurls, I didn't trust threading the cue ball directly. they are synthetic crap now. I also made the entire shifter to go with it, plus the bezel on the boot and the boot itself.

 

I just mentioned this, they have been a synthetic resin for a while now, it's mostly one company making them, the new stuff doesn't drill or tap well, just mentioned this in my post above, so you may need to machine an insert. I put knurls on the outside with epoxy on the knurls, they make sure once it's pressed in, that it won't rotate on the insert. I indexed the insert first so it would point in the right direction, if it's off a bit you can make shims to go on the shaft to line it up.

 

Two I'm working on, the devils-head is my favorite
(Is it still "hand-carved" if I used a dremel??)



Devils head w/hitler 'stache (what's it really called again?) and skull w/snake and poor dental program

 

Here's one i saw at Bonneville this year in a cut down Crosley wagon. This was one good looking car also. John

 

Here are two that i saw this past year at the LA Roadster Show that really caught my eye.

 

Wow there's some really awesome stuff here.

 

Got this at the Primer Nationals, had it striped there to. havn't fitted it yet,

 

Our club's shift knobs . ....

WISE GUYS

Rat

 

that ACME one is cool

 

any more ?

 

mine I picked up at Billetproof in Texas, for my 53 Chevy 210.

 

DAMN! I think I found something new to collect... SHIFT KNOBS! Still trying to figure out what to use on my TT Ford.

 

One that I just made for my buddy's '27 A, It's a solid aluminum door knob that I drilled & tapped.
It weighs over a pound, I got it for $2 at the Habitat4Humanity store.
He has a 327/T5 and I had to improve on the S10 plastic knob in his nice ride.

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The above pic showed my buddys knob in my hand.......OH GROW UP!


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He just sent me a pic of it installed not bad for a used doorknob

 

good stuff...any more ??

 

I,m going to use this in my 34.It,s about 4" high x 3 1/2" wide.

 

damn, theres some cool stuff here. makes my chrome piston knob seem boring. lol. american graffeti influence.

 

Heres some examples of the stuff I make

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Vinny: what material are you using ?

Looks like Resin ?

 

Cool stuff. Let's see some more. I don't have any pics on the computer I'm on right now, but when I get on the other one I'll post some.

 

Yup its a resin composite, Strooooonnnnngggggg stuff.... you should have seen some of the looks on peoples faces at the Pile up when I started beating them on the table as a demo

 

i like the clear ones vinny....good stuff

 

ttt for the weekend

 

Get some great ideas from seeing these.

Michael

 

here's mine!

 

Just had these made from some of my favorite pin-ups from my collection. They're for sale over in the classifieds. My crappy camera doesn't do them justice. The images on the knobs are nice & clear.

 

thanks for the + comments guys I appreciate the feedback !!

 

Hey i have one of them!