Victorian Highway Patrol

[Big Rob]

A HQ had it on the console lid.

Mauser

So if you put a HJ console in a HQ you need to fit a HJ shifter knob or risk a defect?! What a joke!

Back in about 1978 I had a particularly officious local Highway Patrol cop that used to take great delight in defecting my HK van every time he saw me.
I ended up having to go over the pits to have the van inspected and got 53 defects. One of those defects was for not having a glovebox light! I explained to the inspector that it was a Belmont van and they didn't have glovebox lights. His reply was that since I had a Premier glovebox lid, I needed to fit a light!
I also got a defect because my bonnet scoop was black and my van was Aquamarine Blue. This evidently was a contrasting, non-factory colour and it could scare horses. I asked him how the horses could possibly know whether a colour was factory or not, since there were many 2-tone cars on the road. All he did was just he just finding more stupid defects.
I ended up doing the biggest burnout out of the place, drove home and tore the yellow defect sticker off and never went back. Surprisingly I never heard anything more about it.

[Absinth]

So if you put a HJ console in a HQ you need to fit a HJ shifter knob or risk a defect?! What a joke!

HJ had the shifter pattern on the console lid also...... HX/HZ had the shifter pattern on the shifter knob.

yeah it's crap.... His reasoning was reverse gear is in different positions in different vehicles.