I picked up a Model T shifter at a swap meet for $20 bucks, held it up to the T5 shifter stub, marked it, cut the T5 stub off and after sectioning both the new/old shifter and the stub, welded them together. I had a perfectly good SM420 shifter on the perfectly good SM420 that now lives in the corner but it's trading stock and didn't want to molest it. The Frankenstein shifter looks stock to all but the true fans of our rigs. Now that I think about it I had to cut the end of the T-Model shifter off and weld on the threaded stub of a 340 Mopar rod bolt to get the needed fine 3/8" thread to mount the shifter knob. Pretty simple stuff.
