Abstract: Energy absorbing members are provided between a lever mount bracket that support a shift lever, and a base member of a vehicle body that is located in the front part of a vehicle compartment. The energy support member includes a pipe, and a trigger that is joined to at least one end portion of the pipe, and the trigger includes a truncated conical portion whose inclined surface causes plastic deformation of the end portion of the pipe in the direction for increasing the diameter of the pipe upon application of an excessive load thereto. The pipe has a three-layer cylindrical core member consisting of an inner continuous glass fiber random mat, a uni-direction continuous glass fiber layer formed on the random mat, and an outer continuous glass fiber random mat formed on the uni-direction glass fiber layer. The layered structure is impregnated with ortho-phthalic acid type unsaturated polyester resin.