Shifter knob question

[Jim Breazeale]

Or, you could get a "correct" gear shift lever. Part # 914.424.016.00. Those are available new and used.

But, if you replace just the lever, reassembly is a chore. You need a vice and a special tool made from a big, cheap screwdriver.

Jim

A 914 shifter (from a 70,71 or 72 only) will work fine but is bent slightly differently.

Regards

Jim

[raspritz]

There's also the once ubiquitous AMCO knob which did come in threaded versions:

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A threaded one came up at the Pelican BBS a few months ago and there's always eBay.

They don't cost $ 3.75 any more.

I bought one of those Amco shifter knobs NOS and installed it in my '69. Much nicer than the "correct" shifter knob. Changing the shifter knob is perhaps the easiest-to-reverse bit of personalization you can accomplish.

[mfitton]

I bought one of those Amco shifter knobs NOS and installed it in my '69. Much nicer than the "correct" shifter knob. Changing the shifter knob is perhaps the easiest-to-reverse bit of personalization you can accomplish.

I have never seen a steering wheel like that before!

[raspritz]

I have never seen a steering wheel like that before!

This steering wheel has been discussed in a few threads here and elsewhere. It is a bona fide Porsche factory design prototype from the late 1960s that didn’t make the cut; probably 1 of 1. At 40 cm diameter, it feels a bit like driving a bus. Even Porsche made mistakes! For a couple of decades it hung along with another on the wall of a former Porsche factory design engineer as “art”. I’d love to see the other one he had!

[NeunElf]

I have never seen a steering wheel like that before!

This steering wheel has been discussed in a few threads here and elsewhere. It is a bona fide Porsche factory design prototype from the late 1960s that didn’t make the cut; probably 1 of 1. At 40 cm diameter, it feels a bit like driving a bus. Even Porsche made mistakes! For a couple of decades it hung along with another on the wall of a former Porsche factory design engineer as “art”. I’d love to see the other one he had!

What really strikes me as unusual about that steering wheel is the thickness of the rim. It also lacks the dark stripe of the standard wheel.

If you think a 400 mm wheel is like driving a bus, the standard wheel is 425 mm and the wheel in my split-windshield microbus is 450 mm.

[raspritz]

Right. No stripe, and the thickness of the wood is 'fat' at 22 mm.

[Jon B]

Can someone confirm the thread pitch for 65-66 shifter/screw-on knob, is it 15 X 1.5 mm?

John, yes it's 15 x 1.5 mm, the same as a 356 from 1960-65.

Jon B.
Vista, CA

[John912]

Thanks for providing so much information to this forum Jon

[Bert]

PM sent to the OP.

Thanks,

[DrZ123]

Is there any way to fit a threaded knob to a "crush type" shift lever without threads? Thx