Don't have any shots of it so I guess it never happened, but my Deuce highboy roadster has a '46 Ford wheel like Walker Morrison's red roadster has. Not ashamed a bit for copying ole Walker !
I just gotta say this was a great idea for a thread. There are some very cool steering wheels out there.
Yes... great thread. Not only eye candy, either. I can't think of any place else where we can flip through so many examples of vintage steering wheels that we might want to choose 'n' use on our own cars. Thanks, guys. That Zephyr wheel is a beauty. They're all cool. Sent from my VS835 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I had a couple Buicks with huge steering wheels. Loved it. Like steering a bus or something LOL. Sent from my VS835 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
1950 Plymouth deluxe wheel on my 52 Plymouth suburban 1957 Chevrolet passenger wheel on my 57 Chevy truck Barry Lobeck wheel on my 1932 ford coupe
Wanted a stock looking steering column for my retro '53 Chevy King Cab pickup but wanted power steering, tilt wheel, 2004R shifter. Adapted the stock '53 wheel and 3-on-the-tree shift arm to the 80s GM tilt column. Came out pretty nice. The '53 wheel has a smaller column so I started buy sawing off the Bakelite on the back of the wheel. Luckily the shaft splines on the old wheel and modern column are the same. I had to grind down the steel a little so it would seat in the column. drilled the horn button thru-hole to fit the column. Now to adapt the shapes, I cut a sheet metal circle the size of the column. This was epoxied to the wheel and Bondo was used to complete the transition. The shift arm was easy to do also. I just cut and ground the '80s shift arm 'til it slid loosely into the '53 shift arm tube. I then ground the boss on the column so it fit in the sheet metal end of the '53 arm and drilled all 3 components to fit the long '53 pivot rivet. FYI, here is how I adapted the column to the pickup structure. I used both the '53 under-dash column bracket and the late model GM column bracket. This allowed me to use modern power brakes too. I made a fiberglass column-to-dash shroud from fiberglass.
Here's a Sea King boat wheel in my RPU and a shoebox wheel that I just got done restoring during the covid19 lock down.
Here's one shot for you Mercman. Don't want to take the thread off course. I really don't have many pictures of the car. Funny how that works..........E That would be nice! It's been sitting so long it's almost like I don't even have it anymore. I have a small group of people that are on me about getting it back on the road all the time. Always a pleasure to spend time behind the wheel in the awesome interior! E
That can be arranged pal. I have to get on the ball. Takes moola though which is lean these days (lol)! E
Here are a few more wheels -- the first is about a 1940 Pontiac wheel (in a 38 Chevy), the second is the stock wheel in the chopped 49 Ford that I had, the third is a Studebaker Hawk wheel and the last is a 1936 Studebaker wheel. The Hawk wheel and dash are now in my 53 Studebaker coupe (after being cleaned, repaired and repainted).
Everybody uses a 59 Impala wheel in their TriFive Chevy. I wanted a little different one so I went with a 61 Impala wheel. Scuze the bad photo please, I suck at photos.
I'm going to use the '60 Plymouth Aero wheel but would sell the '61 Wheel. The '61 wheel needs restoration.
No more pix till I pull the coupe out of winter storage... down sized, but tried to keep the thin rim... I melted the rubber off a sporty '80s ford wheel, it was an x bent into a circle, I carefully cut down the spokes on a '37 banjo wheel, FORCED them into the grooves in the x... welded them there, wrapped the spoke to rim sections with electrical tape, then wrapped the rim with duct tape [gets sticky on both sides with a little time], finally a leatherette steering wheel wrap... sawed then sanded the under side of the '37 wheel's hub to increase the diameter so that it smoothly flowed from the wheel's size to the speedway quick release hub's diameter... I had the boys in the tool room turn down a '35 horn button/ light switch to the banjo's size... the horn wire tube was only about 4" long... the 2 little knubs were the '35s light switch been using it for about 20 years... now on its second hotrod... .
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