Art & Inspiration Your shift knob is ?

Somewhat Traditional and Homemade

 

Long story short, I love my cats. I call my roadster the Cat Rod (like rat rod but…you get it). A while back I lost my girl Sasha and it kinda broke me. She was a tortie and had this one foot with different colored toes…so I got a plain white shift knob, made a paw pattern and carved it into the knob, then painted the toes like her foot.

 

I absolutely love the green one.

 

I grew up in Pittsburgh…….now installed on the shifter in my 1934 Vicky

 

Now there's something I never thought I'd see on an US rod... a cricket ball. Perhaps we should invite you guys to join us and our English mates for the Ashes series

Cheers,
Harv

 

the boss handles had a allen head screw in the right end to tighten aginst a flat spot on the threads a pretty rare and expensive one

 

Mine

 

My dad was a WWII vet and served on Guadac**** and Merrills Marauders.The Merrills Mauders were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 2022. I got got one of the gold coins from my older brother for Christmas and had Lucky Burton do a shift knob with it for my Model A.

 

I've said here n there around this joint that one of my "hooks" is different shift knobs when I show up. Here's a few made ready over time. Some resins and a legit grenade, along with another devil head from a biker dude in NY. And I have more in the pipeline (go figure).

 

I run this one I got from Lucky Burton.


And I made this from a ball I got from an antique mall for $1, but I don't like driving with it as much:

 

aluminum hurst t handle, unfortunately my stick shift days are over.

 

Hand made to match the window crank handles.

 

I made this one for my 47 Olds. A peice of burl maple and a 1947 walking liberty half.

 

I have the same 6-ball on my off topic daily driver. I've made several shift knobs from pool balls over the years. Always a good conversation starter.

 

The top of an old perfume bottle.

 

Funny you would show a golf ball, I found one in my yard and stuck it on the homemade shiftier rod when I was building the wagon. HRP

 

snooker. Perfect.

 

a stone door knob. Polished up a bit.

 

3D printed.

 

one i made several years ago for my roadster.

 

My new Moon knobs arrived today.