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Buy and Sell => Boat Parts Wanted => Topic started by: RonT on January 24, 2011, 08:26:01 AM

Title: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: RonT on January 24, 2011, 08:26:01 AM

Monday 1/24/11
Bad news guys, I spoke again with the OEM supplier last week who built our shift knobs with the porcelin emblem on top. The family owned business after reorganizing after the founding father died last year has decided to discontinue producing the knobs with emblems. They notified me and thier european OEM customers of this decision. It is a business decision based on being able to create profits from the enveavor, they expressed to me that because of the high rejection rate it is too hard to project pricing/profits. I inquired about buying their tooling for the process & that went nowhere. I will keep my eyes & ears open to alternative methods/options...RonT

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: Mike Harry on January 26, 2011, 04:03:11 PM

Thanks for looking out for us Ron. Good to know where we stand anyway.

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: amski79 on September 10, 2011, 03:57:16 PM

Brand new around here...

Quick question... did all the Am Ski's have this specific emblem topped knobs? Have a '79 that I thought our family had since new. Don't ever remember anything but the solid wood knob still on there. Did it likely have one of the emblemed knobs at one time?

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: Mike Harry on September 10, 2011, 05:09:51 PM

I think (no expert) it was an option? As usual Ron knows best

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: chrisheile on September 28, 2011, 12:44:42 PM

I don't think the '77 has one either.

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: RonT on September 28, 2011, 02:45:13 PM

yes it was an option, but many were installed as a promotional item, especially if a boat was going into a boat show. I don't know exactly when it came about but our '79 had one.

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: 56mulberry on May 15, 2012, 06:51:54 AM

My 1980 does NOT have one---just plain wood......

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: Joel on May 15, 2012, 04:40:16 PM

Well good for you guys!!!   By the time 1990 came around they were using just "plain ole black plastic"    >:(

Fortunately, I got a wooden one from Ron...   Still hoping, praying, dreaming, etc, of a throttle knob with the AM Skier insert....  too cool    8)

Title: Re: Shift Knob Updates
Post by: PaulM on October 04, 2012, 08:05:34 PM

If someone brings one to the 2013 Reunion, I'd be interested in seeing if I could make copies.