4 spoke sport steering wheel project complete!😀

 

something about those factory steering wheels are so appealing

Looks Good

 

Thanks, and you're right... there's something about those that catch your eye.

 

Looks good Dave,
Now you need to take it all apart again so you can replace that turn signal lever with the right one.

 

​​​​​​Thanks Allan... ok, you got me...what does the turn signal lever that I'm supposed to have look like? (Geez... another thing to do..lol)

 

Looking good man!!!

-Peter

 

Like this Dave. Not sure if you have Cruise in your car? I think the turn signal lever is the same for tilt or non tilt columns. Someone can chime in with that answer?

 

Thanks Allan..got one coming 😀

 

That steering wheel looks great!

 

And someone with a 1967 Chevrolet would love to have your old t/s lever!

 

I have the correct tilt wheel lever also if your interested

 

No sir. Look again. The tilt lever he has is the correct one. It's the turn signal lever that someone with a Chevy would like

 

Hey Dave, that looks like an OEM wheel judging from the worn grain and a few nicks here and there. Right or wrong?

 

You sir are correct 😀. It is an OEM😀. The horn kit and hub, however, are repop.

 

Allan- does "t/s lever" not mean turn signal lever in the Great White North? I could see the correct tilt actuator lever in background.

'Course if he had a Chevy tilt actuator the Chevy guys would be wetting their britches!🤑

 

Yup, t/s is turn signal lever. Olds had a very distinctive theme that matched up the turn signal lever, tilt lever and column transmission selector lever.

 

I thought the this was the Olds tilt lever ??

 

1970 only

 

ah OK that make sense it came off my 70 vert

 

All the Chevy ones I see on the inner web have a black tip on the handle and the one I have has a chrome tip...why?

 

Differences in marketing and expectations. Olds buyers expected a little more glitz and glamour for the price difference between Olds and Chevy.

Olds liked chrome levers. Chevy liked matching the **** color to the interior color. Buick for years color-keyed their pedals to interior color. Part of their brand identities and all looked nice.

 

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't answer my question. It was pointed out in this thread that my turn signal came from a late 60s Chevy. From the pics I've seen on the 'net, none of the Chevy turn signal levers from that era have a chrome tip on the handle, but the one I have does...just wanna know why.

 

Does the chrome tip also act as a 'plunger'? If it does you could have a stalk that is for either cruise control or pulse wiper activation (like the 1970 Olds did)

 

Take a pic of the END of your turn signal lever. I have zoomed the other pics as large as I can and I can't see any chrome on that plastic ****. Looks all black to me which, with the overall design, is characteristic of a 1967 Chevrolet part.

The tilt lever, I can see the chromed end on that. But I have explained as best I can why different GM carlines had different interior appointments. GM then was a lot different than GM now. Their post-1988 insistence on "corporate" appearance cues instead of "divisional" was driven by one thing. Cost.

And car buyers quickly wised up to the fact that even a Cadillac was often nothing but a Chevrolet in drag, which is why Olds and Pontiac lost so much market share they were axed. The "experts" with their newly minted MBAs said GM had too many brands. What GM really had was too many brands that were all the same behind whatever emblem was on the grille.

I found it hilarious that the people who created all that came from a detergent conglomerate, where it was simple to put the same detergent formula in different brand packaging. The only difference was the scent. "HEY, WE CAN DO THAT WITH CARS TOO!"

Pfft.

 

My mistake, it is black. So what Chevy vehicle(s) is it for?

 

Works for all 1967 Chevrolets. Nova thru Caprice. Black works with any interior color though 67-68 Chevrolet matched the column shift, turn signal and tilt levers to interior color.

 

Check that off too, Allan😀. I only wish I'd have known sooner so I could have taken care of it without having to take it apart twice..lol. Oh well, live and learn, right?😀

 

That looks absolutely perfect Dave. Well done. Now your column, wheel and levers are spot on!
I notice you have a tilt wheel. Any issues changing that turn switch with that feature?

 

Nice. Even my Chevy has that lever (long story, got boogered when stolen, so the Chevy cruise turn stick got replaced with an Olds by the shop). I like it better as the button is bigger.

 

No sir, just a matter of disassembly and reassembly, the tilt never gave me any issues.