Posted by Tractorfan1 on April 09, 2008 at 10:47:06 from (142.167.92.156):
In Reply to: war time shift knobs posted by edward_m on April 08, 2008 at 23:02:54:
edward_m said: (quoted from post at 23:02:54 04/08/08) It's REALLY rare on non-wartime IH's....it was only used for a few years, and discontinued after the war. So they shouldn't even show up on anything before or after the war.
It was supposedly started in '43, and ran thru to '45. Didn't happen in '42, as rationing hadn't geared up yet, and stocks of rubber knobs had to run out first. You MIGHT find some on early serial '46's, as supplies of steel knobs would have been used up, but I haven't heard or seen of any.
If you can get a couple cheap, by all means put them on e-bay: don't take the chance they disappear (remember what iron brings now). Last I looked, they were bringing 40$ on average, but that could be higher now.
I have a '46 H, that has a P code rear end, with the cast iron shift knob...
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