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dmeffert
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Location: Orange County, New York
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:11 pm Post subject: Help identifying this shifter |
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Good evening everyone. I just bought a Karmann Ghia and it came with this aftermarket shifter. The prior owner didn't know anything about it. It has a wooden knob with the Wolfsburg emblem in gold on the knob. The knob spins around but that doesn't seem right. The threaded metal insert may be loose in the knob.
Does anyone know what kind of shifter this is, who made it and how old it might be? Thanks.
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Location: Rialto. CA
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dmeffert
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Location: Orange County, New York
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Help identifying this shifter |
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| Thanks for the information on it! I will do some more research. |
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Big Bill
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Location: Fortuna Calif.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:39 am Post subject: Re: Help identifying this shifter |
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| In 1970 we bought a new VWbug, it had shifter like that in it. Also had a Wood steering wheel and the dash knobs had fake wood inserts. Came off the show room floor like that. Around 12 or 13 hundred dollars out the door. |
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Rome
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: Help identifying this shifter |
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Hey D, long time no hear. Am glad you still have interest in VWs. Congrats on your Ghia! That shifter "looks like" the VW dealer accessory shifter, but per this 1973 brochure the dealer one had drillings in the chrome shaft all the way down. The knob was shaped slightly differently, and the Wolfsburg emblem appears to be black. So yours might be from another accessories supplier from the late '60's/early '70's, such as MG Mitten, Vilem B Haan, or simply JC Whitney.
Classic VW Bugs' Fall Cruise down here in Rockland County is this Saturday- will you attend? |
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