Saturday, November 19, 2022

Sunday, November 13, 2022 -- Long Beach Car Swap Meet -- Part 2 -- Early Pantera Steering Wheel

The wheel needs a good cleaning and the leather needs slight repair, cleaning, color & conditioning...

Interesting construction of the wheel and hub.
Have not seen this type of construction before.






the plastic rear cover is pretty poorly designed an fastened in place with three screws to the spokes of the steering wheel.



This picture is from an early 70s Pantera.
The factory steering wheel.
A bit strange looking design.
Not particularly attractive.

The center pad appears to be a large hard foam pad, for safety.
The rim is leather wrapped.

The quality of the entire car is pretty poor.
The interior looks cheap and the material quality & fit/finish is poor.

Nice looking car, though.
Mid-engined.
Ford V8, ZF 5 speed.

Found this picture online of a steering wheel with the foam pad missing/disintegrating...

What the pad looks like (replacement part available online).

 

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