[CrashFarmer2]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

This is one in my brothers Roadster. It's a crappy photo, that is a real black widow incased in clear resin. I really dig the original one he had in the car which was an aluminum skull. It was before you could buy aluminum skull shift knobs at every Starbucks and Kragen auto parts store. He picked up an aluminum skull at a swap meet and the whole back of it was flat, so he had a guy build it up with weld and then he ground it round and had it polished.

Brian

A real black widow! It's cool in a creepy sort of way.

[MARTINSR]

Here is that Honda C110 50 Piston, I'll use it one day. The connection is I had one of these bikes as a kid.

Brian

[malc]

Very similar to mine.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by malc

Very similar to mine.

Yours looks like a real piston, they made shift knobs that look like a piston but were pretty plain looking, that is real isn't it? What did it come from?

Brian

[malc]

No idea what bike it came out of.
I bought it 1986 in Germany just up the road from my workplace.

Try explaining to a German you want any kind of small, no good piston to make a gearshift knob.

Enlarged pic.

[MARTINSR]

Very cool, it does look a lot like mine the piston I have.

Brian

[timothale]

On My second T bucket I cast a candy apple 2 1/2 resin ball , looked good until I parked it with the top off on a hot day, shifted in 1 st gear, the ball acted like a magnifying glass and made what looked like a cigarette burn on the new upholstery.

[xxllmm4]

This is actually a paperweight but holy cow this would look cool sparkeling in the sun on some hot rod!

[Valkyrie5.7]

Originally Posted by timothale

On My second T bucket I cast a candy apple 2 1/2 resin ball , looked good until I parked it with the top off on a hot day, shifted in 1 st gear, the ball acted like a magnifying glass and made what looked like a cigarette burn on the new upholstery.

YIKES! Luck you didn't install it in a fiero... might've burned the whole car down

I like these ideas though, especially the beer tap one. Thinking about using an older round style like this:

[Valkyrie5.7]

Originally Posted by xxllmm4

This is actually a paperweight but holy cow this would look cool sparkeling in the sun on some hot rod!

Looks like it belongs in a Roth Kustom or something. Very cool