I picked up this nice clean steering wheel from a guy at a swap meet today. It has more of a 60's flavor but I was just curious as to what this fit and when it was made..... It has a tapered/keyed shaft mount, measures 15" in diameter(has perfect proportions for a hot rod) and it says Elgin" in the center.
Elgin was a name that Sears used on their boats and outbord motors..that's about all i know. i remember my grandfather having an Elgin outboard motor .i'd say you are close on the age...50's-60's? you say a tapered shaft with a key..i wonder if it would fit an old ford shaft?
The steering wheel fits the Ford taper real nicely. It actually closes the gap that i had between the steel column and the aluminum adapter on my other wheel. This has a NICE fit and finish.....though, I don't think it fits the style of my roadster. The problem, is, that the stock Ford retainer nut is too large in diameter to get a socket on it. I could weld an old socket onto the nut and just leave it in there.....it would be covered up by the cool looking cover. If I ground a socket down, there wouldn't be anything left to keep it from splitting.......even that wouldn't work....there's only about a 32nd between the point of the nut and the wall of the steering wheel.. any other ideas....
the-rodster those are pretty cool....thanks for posting......check out those prices! that top one would be cool with a little dressed out 60hp in it
no, no, no.....i have one of chromed rats shifts knobs and plan on building an A coupe around it.....this wheel would match perfectly!
THAT is a cool wheel, man! having a bit of a boat background (grew up on a lake in the 60's/70's) that's not a 60's wheel - it's more like a 50's wheel. Don't remember when Sears stopped using the Elgin name, but all the Elgin outboards I've ever seen were from the 50's - and i've never seen an Elgin boat. I do know that Sears started putting their own name on boats by the mid 60's - we had one - so it's a 50's thing, man.
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