This has been kicked around on this Forum before and the general opinion was that the steel pattern in the bottom of the Gennie might be subject to rapid wear, but I bought the Gennie anyway because I did not want the Lokar button. I do not have the car running yet so I don't know how long the plate lasts. I put a glob of high temp grease on it and I looked hard at putting a thin metal wrap around the bottom to hold the grease in. Now that I think about it I think some heavy aluminum foil could be brought up under the bottom of the shifter and wrapped around the base of the shifter to hold a big glob of grease around the shift plate. I also bought a Gennie handbrake to make the Model A cockpit look a little like the original, but I have since learned that a flat Vega style handbrake might have been less obtrusive in a small space. The handbrake does look stock and installed pretty easy after I got the lines installed for the rear brake cables. The tech guy at Gennie said not to worry if the shift pattern plate wears because he will replace it but he has not had that complaint.

Don Shillady
Retired SCientist/teen rodder