OK - the dealer only sells the shifter base (with the labels included). That part is over $200 so I would be very reluctant to go for that.

Ron if you spot one it would be great.

Also, driving in the sun, I got a better glimpse of the (now empty) track where these two strips go. I am afraid that the black plastic fragments I found underneath the assembly were from the shifter base and are probably the one of the clips or supports to hold the mylar strip and plastic cover up (the other seems OK) ....So in a perfect world, I would buy that new base. However, if anyone finds a whole base in reasonably good condition, I would entertain buying it here rather than pay to the dealer. Otherwise, I can probably rig a repair underneath my existing one that would be perfectly acceptable.

Thanks in advance.

S

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1979 450 SL
Red Bank, NJ