I had a 1960 dodge panel truck, flathead 6 with 3 on the tree.
the tree kept braking...I had the shift lever welded to the shaft that runs along the steering column numerous time, and each time this lasted for a few days....I finally just used a large pair of vise-grips.....
sometime you have to do what you have to do.....
My friend had an old van with the same problem. He stuck a cow’s horn he just happened to have on the stub and drove it that way.
He also had one of those stupid yellow plastic waving hands in the back window, but he improved it by breaking off all but one finger.
That went well with the bumper sticker that said “I’m not as think as you stoned I am”. He had get rid of it off since the cops kept stopping him.
Fun times!
I worked for a moving company during college. The windshield wipers were busted on one of the old trucks. So we would tie a cord on them and manually move the wipers back and forth! We were under strict orders never to show up to the house using it.