On-the-Tree Shift Knob Ideas – Got Any?

in the shop I mix paint to spray cars in small plastic cups so far I have about 6 different size circles from the bottom of the cup after it dries. I have been thinking of gluing them to gether and turning them down on the lathe and make a shift knob. How about red,blue, green and clear with black for top and bottom.

 

I'm thinking maybe drill out some spark plugs, and lifters. one, then the other, for a few rounds and maybe that would make for a cool handle.

 

When in high school (early 60's) we would make wood knobs in woodshop and they worked fine until you tryed to speed shift, guess we should have used harder wood!!
Craftclass we made them from acrylic, they worked allot better.

 

another vote for the truck shifter handles, one of the ones that caught my eye at work was on on old kenworth with a roadranger 9 speed in it, all chrome long, tapered with a radiused end, it fits your job perfect in my opinion

 

Mount it facing up for easy shifting or facing down to open beer.


http://cgi.ebay.com/CAST-IRON-ROCKE...goryZ566QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

This idea gets my vote. Maybe have something like that cast in resin and flake it to match the car.

- Joe

 

^That is neat but would probaly be to big and not to nice looking on a column shift car.

 

I am not crazy about big knobs on column shift cars, they look kinda lame and out of place.

I found this in the junk yard I think its Ford, its simple and adds about 2" to my shifter. it looks much better then the ugly stock black knob found on shoebox chevys.




I found this in the garage, its a flag pole topper, might be cool but for a floor shift.

 

Dunno if anybody mentioned it but what about a hand that's flipping the bird.

 

Drill,em out use one for shifter one for turn signal lever???
they are on ebay, not mine.........maybe to cheesy?
If you had some falcon heads made to fit out of this stuff they would be cool.

 

I dig the rocket idea. That's sort of what I thought I might find sorting through kid's toys. Here's my dash thus far.

 

A planet with a ring around it like Saturn.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8377

??? just bigger might be a temp solution at least

 

Since someone already recommended a rocket, here's another idea.

How about a cast model of a hot and scary Lear Jet 23?

 

Thats cool tech, Thanks for bringing it back up.

 

I used to have a picture I took at Paso of a car with a chrome rocket as a shifter knob. A club plaque of The Immortals was also in the pic if I remember correct. Ill have to try to dig it up. I took the pic cause I thought the rocket looked kool.

 

Atomic age? How 'bout a miniature Sputnik?

 

Alter this or use it for something else???????? also on the bay
(rocket ornament) hood ornament

 

hows this, hes got a few other cool shift knobs, etc.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PETE...ryZ10076QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

dude!!
lovin' that interior. looks great!! can't wait to see it in person.
peace

 

a really huge pink dildo

 

But dont use a 'knob' for a "knob", or people might say you're a w@nker??????????

 

Cut glass door knob maybe? Or maybe a billiard ball, that would be neat, as long as it wasn't the 8 ball.

 

oh....just saw your interior pic......Mooneyes clear teardrop full of silver flake.....about 10 bucks here in Japan!!!!!!

 

love that, I'm going to look into that. The Peterbuilt knob I considered before and may just default to that as it's really a perfect match even if it wouldn't be an interior highlight item. I like the idea of chrome as all my other knobs are chrome as well.

 

Well, the rocket is hollow plastic so that won't work although the look and price was perfect. I think I will continue ebay searching "rocket" for potential items.
As for the Mooneyes idea, I looked up knobs and they had a slew of them, but none like you described Mark. Got a link? Thanks!
http://www.mooneyesusa.com/Store/ad...Csid=890a730f9689cb2e5a05fac89159d66b&x=0&y=0

 

could you maybe fill it with resin and drill and tap that? just a thought if you love the look. Maybe the resin will melt plastic though, I'm not sure on that. Plus, like me, you may have an aversion to anything plastic in your vehicle.
If the plastic rocket is cheap enough might be worth a try.

 

Yeah....I remember this show....pic from Allentown...Guy had some
sort of welding instrament for his shifter....lol
Good one Big Al!!!

 

Wow that is really creative.....I likes that idea!