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#819440 01/25/2012 1:29 AM
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I picked up a freeby '51 Chevy the other day for parts and while looking it over I noticed an odd choke knob.
http://i891.photobucket.com/albums/ac112/Twotone_photos/IMGP3503.jpg
It works like your regular choke knob, but when you push on it, it snaps into place tight against the dash. Anyone know if this is after market or just original to another vehicle?

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Must be one of a kind. Has anyone ever seen one of these before?

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51 + 52 Chevy passenger with automatic choke had a simular knock out plug

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Yes Bill, I agree, that looks like a hole plug. I don't see how it would work as a knob for a control cable unless you used a putty knife every time you wnated to pull out the cable.
I don't think you've looked far enought on that one twotone, try and pry it out.

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Originally Posted by twotone
I picked up a freeby '51 Chevy the other day for parts and while looking it over I noticed an odd choke knob.
http://i891.photobucket.com/albums/ac112/Twotone_photos/IMGP3503.jpg

It works like your regular choke knob, but when you push on it, it snaps into place tight against the dash.

Anyone know if this is after market or just original to another vehicle?

You say it works like a regular choke knob. What does it do when you pull it out?

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throttle knob mabey? my 59 i had had both a choke and a throttle


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Originally Posted by Denny Graham
Yes Bill, I agree, that looks like a hole plug. I don't see how it would work as a knob for a control cable unless you used a putty knife every time you wnated to pull out the cable.
I don't think you've looked far enought on that one twotone, try and pry it out.


I don't have to pry it out, it pulls out with finger and thumb.

Originally Posted by tclederman
You say it works like a regular choke knob. What does it do when you pull it out?

The very same thing the choke knob does in my '53 GMC. The only difference is the knob itself, the rest of the cable etc. is the same as stock and works the same.

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throttle knob mabey? my 59 i had had both a choke and a throttle


So does this truck. It is only the choke knob that looks like this, the throttle knob is stock.

This is a choke cable that works like a stock cable. It is only the appearance of the knob itself that is different. I just thought that someone might have seen one before. It’s no big deal.

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Thanks for the description of the "action", twotone. The angle of the picture had some of us thinking it was just a hole plug.

A replacement cable/knob might have any style of knob. One of my trucks had one that looks like yours (when viewed straight-on, as your photo-angle shows it).

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I have that knob on my 54


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