Turbo shifter handle centre cap

I asked about this a year ago when I was restoring mine. I found nothing. I could barely make out something on a picture of a flyer I saw online, like and "H" or something, but couldn't make it out.
 
I asked about this a year ago when I was restoring mine. I found nothing. I could barely make out something on a picture of a flyer I saw online, like and "H" or something, but couldn't make it out.

I heard from my buddy that its just a silver cap. (maybe use some silver foil tape...) Thats what I used on mine.
 
A silver cap is what I have, nearly. It has a gold band around the edge, and you can see tiny amounts of black paint just inside that, but the rest is silver as it's all worn/flaked off. A 'H' shape sounds possible, a lot of gear shifters have something similar on them on real cars. On the flyer you can just make out that something is there, but it's impossible to make it out.
 
A silver cap is what I have, nearly. It has a gold band around the edge, and you can see tiny amounts of black paint just inside that, but the rest is silver as it's all worn/flaked off. A 'H' shape sounds possible, a lot of gear shifters have something similar on them on real cars. On the flyer you can just make out that something is there, but it's impossible to make it out.

Could you snap a picture of it for us? Maybe we can make something out of it...
 
As much as I need the shifter knob cap, I need a steering wheel center graphic to go along with it.

Anybody out there have that?
 
I may have a spare but don't think it's in very good shape. I'll take a look tomorrow.
 
Ok here it is. Pretty rough, like I thought. Let me know if you're interested.
 

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Ok here it is. Pretty rough, like I thought. Let me know if you're interested.

Thanks for the offer, but that's about what mine looks like. When I get around to it, I may vectorize it and have some printed up. Sounds nice when I say that, but I have no idea when that'll happen.

I need to troubleshoot the lack of picture on my Turbo first.
 
Ok here it is. Pretty rough, like I thought. Let me know if you're interested.

i think mine is in better shape... I'll snap a picture of it this week when I get access to the machine.
 
That's the steering wheel..not the shifter. I already had a thread on the steering wheel and had someone work that up.

Yeah I know, he was asking for that too:

As much as I need the shifter knob cap, I need a steering wheel center graphic to go along with it.

Anybody out there have that?

As for the shift knob cap, I was looking at these on eBay. Wonder if they'd fit?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/944-...rQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories#ht_500wt_1182
 
I guessed how it should look in the end.

turbo_shiftcap.jpg


I'll make a better version of that when I've found another cap to use, sadly I didn't wait long enough between the copper and clear, and the copper paint reacted slightly. The chequered flag came from a kids sticker sheet I found at the local post office :) Just the right size, looks great.

Here's what it looks like fitted:
http://www.system11.org/temp/forumposts/cabpics/Turbo/turbo_shifter.jpg

I struggled really hard to find a sticker that would work, even tried making some with very poor results. If anyone wants to copy this (I'm 100% sure about the copper rim by the way since mine had most of it intact still) I can grab them a sticker sheet and post it along, but I'm in the UK so you might have better luck locally first.
 
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