Just watching Highway Patrol on telly, guy in Victoria just got fined for having an aftermarket shifter knob without the shifter pattern on it.
Never knew it was illegal not to have the shift pattern of the vehicle displayed..... So much for the redback spider knobs.
4/75 HJ XX7 Sandman Panelvan ... Persian Sand currently restoring
7/76 HX Monaro 4dr 308 4sp... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell.. SOLD
3/77 HX Sandman Panelvan ... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell .. SOLD
Geez thats a bit stiff. I guess you wouldnt want to hit reverse instead of 5th on the highway
It's quite a silly thing to enforce. I got hit with it once here in qld. Strangely enough, the factory shifter was too ratty for roadworthy, but aftermarket one passed roady, and yet, I still copped a defect notice and a fine (a huge deal when you're on P-plates). IMO, its just another ridiculous revenue raising nit picky item.
I've never seen a 3 on the tree Holden with a shuft pattern on it that I can remember.
A HQ had it on the console lid.
Mauser
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So if you put a HJ console in a HQ you need to fit a HJ shifter knob or risk a defect?! What a joke!Originally Posted by mauser
Back in about 1978 I had a particularly officious local Highway Patrol cop that used to take great delight in defecting my HK van every time he saw me.
I ended up having to go over the pits to have the van inspected and got 53 defects. One of those defects was for not having a glovebox light! I explained to the inspector that it was a Belmont van and they didn't have glovebox lights. His reply was that since I had a Premier glovebox lid, I needed to fit a light!
I also got a defect because my bonnet scoop was black and my van was Aquamarine Blue. This evidently was a contrasting, non-factory colour and it could scare horses. I asked him how the horses could possibly know whether a colour was factory or not, since there were many 2-tone cars on the road. All he did was just he just finding more stupid defects.
I ended up doing the biggest burnout out of the place, drove home and tore the yellow defect sticker off and never went back. Surprisingly I never heard anything more about it.
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
HJ had the shifter pattern on the console lid also...... HX/HZ had the shifter pattern on the shifter knob.
yeah it's crap.... His reasoning was reverse gear is in different positions in different vehicles.
4/75 HJ XX7 Sandman Panelvan ... Persian Sand currently restoring
7/76 HX Monaro 4dr 308 4sp... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell.. SOLD
3/77 HX Sandman Panelvan ... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell .. SOLD
Ha,ha, they were obviously trying to drive you nut's. The police were such a delight to deal with in the 70's, alway's on the lookout for a victim. Glad those day's are over, they leave me alone now, except for the occasional breath test.
"Proud To Be An Old Fart".
I have a spider gearknob. Love it. If I ever get a defect I'll replace it and change it back straight away.
I do that with my Blower and wheelie bars on my Torana!
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
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