Early 911 Gearshift Knobs
There were actually a couple changes through the early years.
The original 911 knob used in '65 carried over from the 356C. It has no gearshift pattern and is sort of "mushroom" or "trumpet" shaped.
Also, the first gershift knobs screwed on, but it wasn't too many years till Porsche switched to a press-on knob.
Back when classic Porsches were new, Road & Track, Car & Driver, etc. carried ads from Villem Haan, MG Mitten, and Amco (is that spelled right?) which offered things like Jim Clark driving gloves, genuine walnut gershift knobs with gear pattern or crest, and not terribly expensive Heuer stopwatches and Halda Speedpilots and rally odometers (sigh).
A lot of our cars still have Amco bars. I wish I knew where to find/could afford the Heuer watches...
Jim Alton
jhaltonii@earthlink.net
1965 Porsche 911 coupe