Interiors and Dashboards (interesting and awful!)

[NewcastleFalcon]

Hands up if you took the time to watch Matts follow up video on the unusual Jaguar XK150 Foxbat Estate model I posted up. Only one one-off real car produced but 403 1/43 models in a special edition. In a continuing fine example of picking up the ball and running with it, that video supplies "Lovely Gearsticks No2". Not particularly for its form, more for its unusual movement which you can see in the video. Watch it here viewtopic.php?p=810741#p810741

Lovely Gearsticks No 1

Lovely Gearsticks No 2 (and a very decent "fly off" handbrake too)

Neil

[CitroJim]

Ahh, the good old original Mini gearstick before the remote change came along Very direct and straight to the selector forks but the 'give' in the long lever made it a bit less precise than it could have been. It exemplifies the drive to make the original Mini as simple as possible. I think it suits the vehicle rather well, as does the authentically perfect oval instrument binnacle in the middle of the dash; another design simplification to maintain as many common components between the RHD and LHD models. Yet another nod to this philosophy was the push-button starter on early models.

That XK150 Foxbat gearchange looks distinctly kinky and not at all pleasant to use...

[mickthemaverick]

I'll nominate this for number 3 in the gearstick list:

[Gibbo2286]

Ahh, the good old original Mini gearstick before the remote change came along Very direct and straight to the selector forks but the 'give' in the long lever made it a bit less precise than it could have been. It exemplifies the drive to make the original Mini as simple as possible. I think it suits the vehicle rather well, as does the authentically perfect oval instrument binnacle in the middle of the dash; another design simplification to maintain as many common components between the RHD and LHD models. Yet another nod to this philosophy was the push-button starter on early models.

That XK150 Foxbat gearchange looks distinctly kinky and not at all pleasant to use...

That caused a few problems at first because mechanics and DIYers instead of using the jacking points jacked them up in the most convenient place and in doing so chopped through the battery cable and destroyed the battery with a full out short circuit.

[CitroJim]

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Yet another nod to this philosophy was the push-button starter on early models.

That caused a few problems at first because mechanics and DIYers instead of using the jacking points jacked them up in the most convenient place and in doing so chopped through the battery cable and destroyed the battery with a full out short circuit.

Gosh! That must have been quite a spectacle to witness when it happened Eric!

[NewcastleFalcon]

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Yet another nod to this philosophy was the push-button starter on early models.

That caused a few problems at first because mechanics and DIYers instead of using the jacking points jacked them up in the most convenient place and in doing so chopped through the battery cable and destroyed the battery with a full out short circuit.

Gosh! That must have been quite a spectacle to witness when it happened Eric!

Couldn't quite work out how that would have happened until I remembered "Battery in the boot" of course, and a cable run somewhere under the car back to front. My 1969 Mini also had Hydrolastic pipes front to back, not a great jacking point either!.

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

Lucas weren't happy when they suddenly had a pile of failed battery guarantee claims.

[bobins]

Very RED in case you hadn't noticed



A Maserati Giblet GT coming up on auction.....
https://auctions.wbandsons.com/auction/ ... 2&pn=9&g=1

[NewcastleFalcon]

Lovely!

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Cue Ball type Gear stick Gallery

New Addition Today

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

7 points for each of these Black Balls

Neil

[MattBLancs]

Found by Mick, here: viewtopic.php?p=817980#p817980
But you done get many instrument clusters like this nowadays!

(Argh!, image saved as incompatible webp format, bear with me)

https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/ ... f3c80747ca



Nope, failed again, resorted to a print screen!

I'd have to sort the wonky clock (that also seems to be a different back colour??)

[mickthemaverick]

Are you after this Matt?
With ignition switch on the left, click on to enlarge!

BFTW

[MattBLancs]

Are you after this Matt?

Nope, better view with Image 54, hopefully above at last!

[NewcastleFalcon]

One more for the Cueball connection

Mercedes Benz 300SL (1954-1957)

Neil