A friend gave me his old shifter boot which I restored and re-dyed. Looks better than the red-stitched vinyl boot I had before. For some reason the shifter has always nudged into the edge of the console in upper gears (reverse, first, third and fifth) kind of making the console creak on impact but hopefully the pending shifter upgrade will fix that.

Shifter boot looks nicer than just about anything else in the car right now.