today i was working on the car  , i prepare this one for the freddy files  who is tomorrow , and during did work I say itself He a little will test my second shifter dds which it was not my surpride to see that my 2 bases of shifter were different, I think that  left is original and that  of right-hand side is a reproduction "home made" but of very good quality, it is there that which is in this moment in the 61 and any problem that think about it??? for those which has a shifter dds with the base, that it is the original base you???

mike did yo have a spring in this one

no i don't have a spring, in fact i don't have a shifter!  I do have some pics of one though that's how i know

I've done a template explaining how the cup plate could be done. The pictures I send to Lidds explain how it works clearly. It can be made with a standard shifter plate and some pieces of a shifter base plate. Not so hard to do, you only need some welding skills.

On the 6 DDS shifters I have, 4 had the springs. But I tried the shifters on my chassis, with and without springs, and to me, they seems to be useless. The spring is a standard vw shifter spring.