Shifter knob ?

mustangmendez · #1 (**permalink**) 10-25-2002, 07:42 PM

Does anyone make a shifter knob for a T5 shifter with a Cobra Head in polish aluminum ? Thanks Mustang Mendez .How abought you DV ?

kountzecobra · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2002, 08:48 PM

What about Finish Line? They have an Aluminum knob with cobra on it.

Ed Csoltko · #3 (**permalink**) 10-25-2002, 09:46 PM

Does this mean that your CMC is on the way?

http://www.cobraaccessories.com/

mustangmendez · #4 (**permalink**) 10-25-2002, 10:18 PM

Thanks guys I m looking for a knob that is carved as a Cobra head ready to strike somthing with red eyes or of that sort .Ed 1 I am thinking more abought it . Thats one more step .Next is to get the skunk out of the Snake barn and get it cleaned up I think that will make a good party .
Mustang Mendez

Jim Werth · #5 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 05:34 AM

Sure I got one from autozone, but its chromed plastic. Cost about $15. Jim

Jack21 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 09:02 AM

Am using a T-5Z with a Hurst shifter. Hurst has a "Classic" style shifter ball that I ordered with it. It's about the size and a tad lighter than a billiard ball and resembles those installed on Hurst 4 speeds of the '60's. Adds a little snap to the shifting.

The standard shifter ball that comes with the Hurst has a removable logo that can be replaced with a Cobra logo from Tony Branda. Had to get one for my stering wheel horn button as LeCarra couldn't sell me one.

Whaler · #7 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 10:08 AM

Those beasts are always on e-bay
Just do a search with the words cobra shifter or cobra shifter knob and you will see them. I alwys see them on there.
Whats the deal trying to get one for halloween?

LOL

Tim

Whaler · #8 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 10:11 AM

Red eyes

Fill your boots

Tim

Fred Douglass · #9 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 11:13 AM

Mustang,
This may seem a little "over the top"---but I remember a paper-weight in my Dad's office in Melbourne, Fla.---it was a rattler's head encased in Plarex(?) a cold-pour plastic. The paperweight was acube, but I don't see whay we couldn't bribe a zoo-attendant to give us any dead cobras---get a spherical mold---and away we go!!!

BTW (another subject)---I'm trying to get a certain custom color for my car (which is a-building)---if you have access to a PPG or DuPont color-patch book, let me know if you want to do a little research.

mustangmendez · #10 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 12:52 PM

Thanks guys I llike the one on ebay and Fred whoo man I dont what to say .But if you would like for me to find a color for you in PPG I have color charts here let me know what color you are looking for, the best way is to go to a dealer find a color you like and give me a Make and VIN # or send me a 4'X4" square and we can find you a mixing # in PPG.
Mustang Mendez

Fred Douglass · #11 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 04:35 PM

Mustang,
Well, let's start with the "Rattler-in-a-Ball" concept. I've got two zoos near me (ask my wife and she'll say it's THREE)

but I might get a deal. Anyway, I'd like to try for a cobra-in-a-ball. If I make two, I'll send ya one! If I make three and sell one for a nifty profit AND suddenly cobras start getting sick in zoos all over the country, you will, I hope, deny ever having communicated w/ me, right?

The strange (I admit) color that I suggested to Ron Butler (who is selling me a cobra with a bluish-pearl-gray interior (!) was........is.........(drum-roll, please)..........EGGPLANT!!! (Cue the Monty Python "stark danger" music)...The best way to convey it to you is that it really is (no kiddin') based on a real eggplant!
About three or four years ago Chrysler had a color called "Midnight Plum" (I think)---add a pearl black..and away we go! Cadillac has a deep crimson, and black and blue and maybe that will work? If you get any leads or (better) ideas, on this let me know. Two years ago, at Pebble Beach, I saw a Talbot Lago with a deep "midnight purple"--that was real close to eggplant---it also made for the sexiest car ever made by mankind. The present-day "Talbo" (note spelling) turnkey attempts to emulate the Talbot's "look"---not to badly, either. There is a yellow and black Talbot (real) at Peterson's "Million Dollar Car" exhibit right now. Bring the heart-meds!!!

Thanks for your interest. I'll contact you again when I corner the color better. Watch the news for "mysteriously-dying zoo cobras"---hoo hah!

Chow,

66 snake · #12 (**permalink**) 10-26-2002, 05:27 PM

Freddie,
My wife says to call it "Aubergine". It's french apparently for Eggplant. Might help in your search.

Alan

Fred Douglass · #13 (**permalink**) 10-27-2002, 09:14 AM

66,
You make it an even dozen of Texans I really like! You guys have steered me straight on several issues and I thank you one and all. What I'll do is go to my local bodyshop guy (he's featured in the latest Kit Car, in an article about a new lightweight FFR). I think I'll SAY "eggplant"---then I'll slip over a piece of paper with "aubergine" written on it.
I know that I'll have to bend someone's head if I lead out with "aubergine" verbally! No, wait, I'll DO IT! I'm a VERY large man (ask Jerry Goddard or Jim Weatherford)---and I still retain my "study hall glower".

Thanks,

Aussie Mike · #14 (**permalink**) 10-27-2002, 04:10 PM

Saw this knob on a CSX car at the fling. Don't know who made it but it caught my attention.

Cheers

mustangmendez · #15 (**permalink**) 10-27-2002, 09:47 PM

Aussie thats what im looking for .But oooo Freddie has me going on his idea ,Now Freddie if we could get the cobra head in a clear shifter knob you get the looks and the smooth shifter knob save me one HA ! I wont tell anyone HEHE I will ck on you egge plant color .
I could trade you a rattler or two TEXAS SIZE>>>>.
Mustang Mendez

Back in Black · #16 (**permalink**) 10-28-2002, 10:20 AM

I can get them wholesale....lol...retail for the cane is $25 but it is basically pot metal... if you want red eyes, just center punch the eyes, drill them out a bit, and superglue in two red plastic "gems".

My shift knob is turned Padouk wood...just need the right threaded sleeve to match the shifter thread..will be replacing the elm dash on my West Coast with this same wood...matches the MK 2 Elegante wheel which the car has now.