I really do like my "Driver" ~ It's a Great Fit&Feel ~ Here it is again if you haven't already looked

https://picasaweb.google.com/109991183317103413704/VDUBARU?authkey=Gv1sRgCMW42OH705nRDA#5979592326138030098

        Or try this if that doesn't work

http://tinyurl.com/kryev78

                                                                                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 12 Feb , 2014, at 5:06 PM, Jim Felder wrote:

> I once had an Austin Healy Sprite. You reached more or less down to reach
> the know from the driver's position. The handle was mushroom shaped and fit
> perfectly into your palm. I later had a triumph with a manly shift lever
> that you reached up to to engage. It had a knurled brass (not stock) one
> inch or so diameter "knob" that was about three and a half inches tall. It
> fell perfectly into my hands grabbing it like a subway pole. Very vertical.
> 
> I had a Renault Dauphine with a little teardrop-shaped white porcelain knob
> that made one stick one's little finger out to operate the gears like a
> demitasse cup.
> 
> I had an MGA with a stitched leather ergonomic kidney bean with the car's
> logo in the top.
> 
> Each was perfect for its task whether it was original or a replacement.
> 
> What is the perfect shape for a vanagon, especially something that could be
> turned on a lathe but not limited to that?
> 
> It could be shaped like the oarlock on a Venician gondola for all I care.
> It's too cold and snowy to get out and take measurements, just in the
> thinking stage. Think about how you reach down to engage the Vanagon shift
> knob (unless you are my wife the time she literally fell off the seat and
> onto the floor in traffic reaching for something).
> 
> Jim