Technical How about a thread showing photos of home made shifter boots/consoles?

I need to make a boot or small console to cover the shifter mechanism on the Lokar auto stick shift in my 34 truck. Can some of you post up photos of how you managed this? Here is an old photo of the shifter . I have since finished the interior and have it carpeted and changed the parking brake back to an original handle one.

 

Old news!

 

Mine's pretty simple. I had an old shift boot that was the type/style I wanted. Cut the s***ching, took it apart and used the panels for templates. Cut the new panels from a piece of hide left over from my seat and sewed em up.
Bought a couple of stainless bezels and used br*** machine screws for fasteners.

 

I sewed this one up for a buddy. He cut an aluminum frame to go around the bottom and hold the leather tails down to secure it to the floor.

 

That leather tag is slick. There’s a place in town that lasers stuff into leather similar to that and never thought about all the car possibility’s. Good one

 

My old beater. HRP



Ranch Wagon

 

One from a MGB might work. Available elongated as shown or round depending on the year.

 

What I used in my bucket, 20 dollar swap meet wall hanger, hollowed it out on the drill press

 

Hey Tim, it's actually "branded" into the leather. I found a guy with a small CNC mill who cut a mirror image of the logo into a br*** block. It's mounted onto the end of a traditional cloth-corded 100 watt soldering iron. It's been in contact with a lot of leather.

 

Sewed it an made the ring.

 

@Ebbsspeed very cool. These guys use a lazer. If you were gonna mark a lot of stuff I think you’ve got the right idea

 

In my roadster I had a fairly round ****** hump that I flattened out with some sheet metal and welding. The I made an aluminum plate to tie the shifter and hand brake together.

Then I machined the aluminum plate so the trim rings would sit inside the plate and the leather would not show around the bottom. Also rounded the edges and counter sunk the hardware.

Polished and upholstered.

 

On my PU I had to flatten out the shifter area and add a "landing pad" for the hand brake as the ****** tunnel was just a bit too narrow.
Before:

After:



Then Rhino lined top and bottom

And bolted down atop the rubber floor mat for an industrial "roadie", "rock n roll" kinda vibe.

It is funny how much time and work we spend on such a mundane and commonly overlooked item.
After seeing @Ebbsspeed 's boot, I think I may need to improve on the cheap vinyl boots on the truck that came with the trim rings.

 

I covered my winters sidewinder recently, a few pics, Glen

 

'40 Plymouth.