Gearknob costs more than whole car...?

[Foeux]

I like my £500 Lexus LS400 a lot. I like that everything electric just works, I like that it sounds good with the middle resonator on the exhaust cut out, I like that mis-matched Chinese ditch-finders on the back make it do skids everywhere (especially in the wet). I like that the stereo is obnoxiously loud when needed, I like the leather seats, I like a lot about it.

 

However, one of the main points of contact is the slightly tired old leather gearknob. I am changing this as we speak…

 

I have a pal, Mark, who has owned one of the most prestigious kitchen and furniture companies in the UK, perhaps the world. He is semi-retired and likes tinkering. I have asked him to make me an ebony gear knob for the Lexus, he has agreed.

 

He has taken my knob and replaced it with a temporary solution, a nickel re-cast of a 1928 bonnet mascot that looks just like him. It cost ‘many hundreds of pounds’ and he had to borrow the original from Beaulieu Motor Museum.

 

I will of course show you the ebony knob when finished but in the meanwhile, here is the gearknob that costs more than my whole car…

 

Am I getting this whole AS thing right?

 

 

[Squire_Dawson]

Looks like Bruce Bairnsfather's 'Old Bill'.

[barefoot]

 

 

Am I getting this whole AS thing right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well your knob certainly looks shit.

 

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This is not a new phenomenon around here, Dugong has a vehicle in which the gear knob is worth more than the van.

[pshome]

did you say beerknob?

[Pillock]

I've had plenty of cars that were worth less than their gearknobs. Subtle difference.

[fred]

You have a very polished helmet on your knob sir, must be caressed a lot