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How do you guys like my new shift knob?
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01-19-2017, 10:17 PM | #1 |
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How do you guys like my new shift knob?
My buddy gave me this Beer Tap to make into a shift knob, I was determined to make it work no matter what. Just 2 hours later it was complete. I know it is completely ridiculous, but I will have fun with this from time to time.
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01-19-2017, 10:23 PM | #2 |
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Looks very functional. Fit and finish looks good, though.
Wonder if it would get you a DUI test if you got pulled over mid-day. |
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01-20-2017, 05:28 AM | #3 |
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I did this with my 1972 Pinto somewhere in time when I was 17 or so. It was a Heineken tap handle and screwed onto the treaded shift lever of the 4-speed Getrag transmission Pintos used back in the day. You'll get over it after awhile and switch back; cool that it is, and good fit and finish I must add. Back in the '70s you could drink beer and drive without much hassle; if you got caught they'd make you pour it out or confiscate it and tell you to go home (ah the good old days). In today's world, I'd doubt a LEO would have much tolerance for a beer tap shift knob; and being the laws what they are today, I'd expect the Officer to request a search of your car if you are pulled over.
Being that the shift lever is not threaded on BMWs, how'd you mate it up? And just to be a total goof with this (because it's related to my story) I recently discovered that the 1972 Pinto shift knob screws onto the lock-release lever of the Rotary SPO-A10 automotive car lift.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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01-20-2017, 01:17 PM | #7 |
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Cool! Shift-a-tap.
Now that's a new way of drinking and driving.
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01-20-2017, 01:39 PM | #9 |
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It's not replacing my M-Sport shift knob, it's just a fun thing to have. It's going to spend most of the time in my glovebox.
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Must be effed to like this nonsense
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01-20-2017, 02:17 PM | #12 |
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01-20-2017, 04:32 PM | #14 |
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Careful OP its a slippery slope....next you'll be putting a dildo shift knob in there like some other member did a while ago
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