loosing my direction, odd steering wheels

[pshome]

Round, symetric with 2 or 3 spokes? Nada, there are better ways!

 

Subaru XT

 

 

Very nice to circle a roundabout again and again looking for the right exit.

[pshome]

Allegro, what did they smoke when designing this?

 

[pshome]

oh, they didnt design it, bright idea stolen from the US of A.

 

[JohnK]

I seriously could not drive that XT with that steering wheel. It does not sit right with my brain at all!

[DSdriver]

Who needs two spokes when one is safer?

[overrun]

Loose steering wheels are no laughing matter.

[Jim Bell]

Saab 9000 says Why Not Joystick?

 

[Junkman]

"Quillery" wheel available for Renault 4s.

 

 

Made from old peoples' spectacles, according to Mr Conelrad.

[Junkman]

1930s Delahaye:

 

[Junkman]

1960 Dodge Polara:

 

[Junkman]

Or how about pre-war Chevrolet's optional 'spinner' steering wheel for a stylish suicide?

 

[Squire_Dawson]

Think it was an Edsel - correct me if I'm wrong - which had electric push-buttons for the auto box in the centre of the wheel. I can't see that working well, somehow.

[spike60]

Loose steering wheels are no laughing matter.

Many moons ago I bought an Opel Ascona SR with an aftermarket steering wheel and a column rattle that went with the wheel wobble. One night at dusk, pressing on because I was towing a trailer with no lights the steering wheel came off in my hands. This was at about 80mph on the A19 Tees flyover which curves and I couldn't get the wheel back on properly so forced it down enough to steer in into the middle of the lanes. I then took it off again and yanked the indicator switch out of the way which seemed to be jamming it. Still doing about 50mph I then stuck the wheel back on more sucessfully and then drove straight over the kerb separating the layby and stopped without hitting anything.

The nut was rolling around under the boss and had obviously been loose all the time I had it, a spring pushing the wheel against the nut so it wasn't flopping about. That had been the column rattle....

[Squire_Dawson]

And a ZIM Soviet barge with an awful wooden steering wheel, surely the compliment to Dugong's Knob van: the Bole car. I would find pictures, but I post this on my phone so cba.

[mercrocker]

I have had the Minor wheel almost at the end of its spine travel after the nut continually unwound.  Luckily I felt it progressively and suddenly loosen....There must be something about Asconas - was it a RWD one by any chance?   Mine tried to kill me by putting its throttle linkage over-centre at the carb joint after I had floored it to pass a lorry.   Good thread, BTW - there is never enough Lucite in the modern motor car.....

[Junkman]

Think it was an Edsel - correct me if I'm wrong - which had electric push-buttons for the auto box in the centre of the wheel. I can't see that working well, somehow.

 

"Teletouch Drive" works a treat, believe it, or not.

 

 

Also note speedometer.

[Squire_Dawson]

An interesting feature, even if it was a pure gimmick. Good to hear they work fine, too.

[pshome]

how to get in? I would not fit anyway....

 

[pshome]

The inner one is for Mr. the outer for Mrs. ?

 

[holbeck]

Allegro, what did they smoke when designing this?

 

ISTR the quartic wheel was first postulated within BL for the SD1. Indeed my father's 1981 2300 had one. It's inclusion in the spec for the allegro was a corporate edict. The people at Austin-Morris just didn't have the panache to design a good one

[pshome]

[I_am_Diesel]

That Allegro dash looks strangely nice and functional for some reason.

[Matt]

There is always this doozy, centre stays still like the Rolls Royce emblem in the wheel covers of RR's

 

[Formula Autos]

 

Simplicity itself - the wheel in a Peel Trident.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Ron Jeremy?