New gear knob and gaitor

I now have the car back from the garage having been relieved of considerable hard earned cash. It's driving much better now thanks to the new clutch. Now that it's done I've decided to sort the gear level gaitor out.

I've been swapping the original doeskin beige interior for a black one, it's most or less complete apart from the drivers seat. The "ski-slope" walnut centre console panel was damaged and faded so I've replaced it with a decent one from an auto car. The cut-out for the gear level is a different shape so I've adapted the gaitor to fit this.

The plastic surround from an auto box was used as it was a perfect fit for the ski-slope used. The square aperture was for the "sport mode" button, I've filled this by gluing in the black growler badge from the original ski-slope, the fit is perfect! I cut the leather gaitor away from the frame the fits the manual ski-slope glued it to the auto plastic surround. I also used black shoe polish to restore the black colour as it had rubbed away in places and looked tired.

To finish off I've replaced the heavy metal gear knob with a nice walnut jobbie, it has a growler badge with "Jaguar Coventry" on the top. I'm pleased with the result.