hmmm... I toyed with this idea once too. Basically, I was gonna cut a hole around the shifter, use a shifter boot that I grabbed from a junk Nissan Z, and make a plate outta 1/4" polished steel or aluminum to fasten the boot to the console. I was going to do this until I ultimately decided it was useless to fake a standard transmittion in an auto, beacause I want an actual 5-speed. :wink: I'm not sayin that it would look bad, tho.
Hope my idea helps