Thread: Lokar or Gennie?

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Bob---How could that (a knob adapter) be done? Something has to depress that flexible cable running down the inside of the shift lever.--The only thing I can think of that would let you use any knob is some kind of "add on" lever that you squeeze with your fingers, or a pull-up style lever that you pull up with your fingers while the palm of your hand was on the shifter knob (I've seen that on some factory stock car in the sixties but I don't remember what). Either way it sounds kinda ugly and not too workable.--- -----Now, putting on my design engineers hat, (the one I wear all week), I suppose you could make a sliding tube that fits over the top 2" of the shift lever, with a stud on top of the tube that will fit any old gearshift knob, and some method of attaching the tube to the flexible cable that pushes down the detent mechanism, and a compression spring that fits between the top of the shift lever and the inside top of the adapter tube. That way you push down the gearshift knob, which makes the tube slide down over the outside diameter of the gearshift, which pushes down the flexible cable to disengage the detent mechanism down at the transmission end, thus allowing you to change gears.-----still sounds pretty hokey to me.