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71GMC_3/4T 07-13-2003 05:30 PM

Odd GMC Steering Wheel? Or just normal?
 
My '71 GMC has a black vinyl (?) steering wheel. It looks stock, but all the Chevy ones are the hard plastic. It is the typical huge diameter (so I know it isn't 73 up) and has the GMC emblem in the horn button.
Anyone else have one like mine? Or is mine from a newer C-60 +/- type of truck?
:gmc:

71GMC_3/4T 07-15-2003 12:13 AM

Anybody?

This has had me wondering for quite some time now...

Thanks!

Green72GMC 07-15-2003 12:15 AM

Do you have a pic of it? That sounds interesting, It could have been ordered out of a magazine or something.

71GMC_3/4T 07-15-2003 09:46 AM

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I found this picture. It's not the best quality, but you can get the idea of what the wheel looks like.
It is a Sierra Grande, so it may have an "upgrade" steering wheel.

CPNE 07-15-2003 09:53 AM

That IS the 73-up wheel. They were pretty big in diameter too.

bpmcgee 07-15-2003 12:46 PM

I think CPNE is right. It's identical to the one on my '75 C10.

Brian

Brewski* 07-15-2003 12:57 PM

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I think mine is the same and I was told it is out of a '75

71GMC_3/4T 07-15-2003 02:38 PM

Thanks all!
I had a 75 pickup, but I don't remember the wheel being this big. But if CPNE says so, I believe him!
:gmc:

CPNE 07-15-2003 02:40 PM

:o

Longhorn Man 07-15-2003 04:04 PM

I have been told that they were used as factory replacements after they ran out of NOS ones.
Seems an awfull lot of these trucks have them, and I can';t see why anyone would WANT to install it, IMO they are pretty dang ugly.

SWINGSAX68 07-17-2003 08:15 PM

my dad has one on his 78 but it is narrower at the side of the horn button, my truck had one just like that when I got it....


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