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Real pineapple grenade for a shift knob

Old 06-11-2012, 07:32 PM
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Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Hands down the coolest idea I have ever had. My old shifter **** was broken in half and the button didn't work, not a big deal to me, SO I remembered that I had a real (yet deactivated) pineapple grenade, the wires in my brain zapped, and walla! I have a pineapple grenade shifter! all I did was remove the button, take off the cir-clip, then pulled the **** off. pulled out the blue pole (not sure what it's called) and then i put the grenade on. the great thing, is that the fuse fit perfectly in the left over hole, so it doesn't move. maybe I can even put some sort of spring under the spoon, to act like the original button.
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interesting for sure man
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

That i LOVE!!!!

And if you get pulled over, just tell him you want to go on your way or you pull the freaking ring!!
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

In this paranoid world, don't be surprised if your car is surrounded by the bomb squad if you leave it parked somewhere. Nobody understands unique things like that anymore.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Well...it's certainly different/interesting! I would be upset if I saw something like that in an otherwise nice/correct car, but I can tell by the photo that it's a driver car.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Thanks guys, I really like it, it kind of makes it mine, you know? I agree, the hoi polloi would never understand... But if the bomb squad ever gets called, I guess I'll take it off... Lol. I see what you mean, I just bought the car and it's pretty beat up. If I were to restore it, I would put an original on, but mine was broken anyways, so I thought, why not?
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

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In this paranoid world, don't be surprised if your car is surrounded by the bomb squad if you leave it parked somewhere. Nobody understands unique things like that anymore.
he has a point, and they typically deal with questionable bomb looking devices by blowing them up with other explosives, so bye bye car.........

cool idea though
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

if they blew up my car for that, i would be Pissed, seeing as they sell chrome grenade shifters in Pep Boys

its definitely unique, i have a few deactivated grenades myself, and im glad to hear you would replace it if you decided to restore the car! that's a working brain for ya
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Yeah, it's sad that people are so paranoid these days... I'll take my chances though.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

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he has a point, and they typically deal with questionable bomb looking devices by blowing them up with other explosives, so bye bye car.........

cool idea though
Case in point... http://jalopnik.com/lolcars/
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

That's pretty cool.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Not bad at all. So do you just put the whole thing down to act as the button?
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Awesome. Now you just need the tank dashboard I just picked up at an auction.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Well, the button never worked anyways, so it doesn't have to be pushed down, but I suppose if your button worked, you could it's trim down the blue stick, so that you could pull it down to shift. I was also playing with the idea of using the spoon as a button (squeezing it)
Tank dashboard? Sounds badass, what is that? I have since removed the grenade to put the original **** on, because I'm doing my interior red and black, and saddly it doesn't match.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Tank Dashboard is exactly what it sounds like. Came out of a tank, probably weighs about 60 LBS, has your usual auto type gauges surrounded by cool looking switches and indicator lights. All original Stewart-Warner gauges in them, probably from the 50's or so.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Originally Posted by Caveman305
if they blew up my car for that, i would be Pissed, seeing as they sell chrome grenade shifters in Pep Boys

its definitely unique, i have a few deactivated grenades myself, and im glad to hear you would replace it if you decided to restore the car! that's a working brain for ya
just make it obvious that they are deactivated
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

Looks awesome. Definitely better than those skull shifter ***** that certain people seem to be obsessed with.

Cheers!
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

I'm an AMMO guy in the military. If your worried about the bomb squad paint it blue and drill a 1/8 or 1/4 inch hole through the center and you'll be good. Blue= Inert/no explosives and the hole shows its been deactivated.
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Re: Real pineapple grenade for a shift ****

I did this a while ago to my old iroc before it was totaled:
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