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Started by _holdon_ , Jun 14 2007 09:40 AM

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#1 _holdon_

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 09:40 AM

i am confused. are the lc gtr steering wheels wood grain or plastic (outer rim)

i have a lc gtr wheel but it has a plastic outer rim (black). now - all the ones i have seen on ebay are a wood grain rim - i guess hence the cracks.

i am considering selling mine as this here fetched well over $1K. http://cgi.ebay.com....1QQcmdZViewItem

but that was for the wood grain ^^

can anyone confirm to me whats with the plastic and woodgrain? is the wood only from the monaro's?

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 09:58 AM

Early lc,s have the woodgrain same as hk monaro later lc,s have the black same as ht-g monaro

Edited by bullitljv8, 14 June 2007 - 09:59 AM.

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 05:16 PM

ahh ok. so i must have a later model one.

are they just as rare/popular as each other?

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 05:22 PM

yep!!worth more if complete with steering boss & horn button with the spring clip in it.

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 07:40 PM

does any one know when the change occured from the woodgrain to the black?

Edited by robj, 14 June 2007 - 07:40 PM.

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 07:40 PM

Crazy money for good parts now aye. I'm glad my car came with it's wheel. I remember about 15 years ago looking for an LX wheel (SLR style) and turning my nose up at several of these early wheels in the hunt. Should have put them in the wardrobe... And my LC GTR 6/71 black rimmed wheel. :spoton:

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Posted 14 June 2007 - 07:45 PM

From what I have seen it would have been early 70's that the change to the new black wheel occured. Maybe aroung the time the ADR plates were introduced.

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Posted 16 June 2007 - 08:35 AM

Crazy money for good parts now aye. I'm glad my car came with it's wheel. I remember about 15 years ago looking for an LX wheel (SLR style) and turning my nose up at several of these early wheels in the hunt. Should have put them in the wardrobe... And my LC GTR 6/71 black rimmed wheel. :spoton:

I wish my car came with an original steering wheel, and wheel dress trims for that matter. Two items that are going to be expensive to get.

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Posted 16 June 2007 - 11:38 AM

Hi there we have a 1969 car, and yep has original wheel and its Black, speaking with original owners son and he never recalls having a Woodgrain wheel

Hmmmm

One of those things maybe parts bin was drying up and they started fitting newer wheels some things you just never know, I know that with other makes too

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Posted 16 June 2007 - 12:44 PM

Mine is a 11/69 gtr fro victoria,it came with the woodgrain steering wheel,all the cars that I have seen from 1970 onwards had the black wheel but it could have just been a case of whatever was in the parts bin at the time & what state the car was built in.I could only get my hands on a NOS black wheel so I ended up putting that on it as the woodgrain one cracked.

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Posted 17 June 2007 - 02:56 PM

I was told the wood grain brown gtr / gts wheels were GM usa import ?
not sure? but i have both and the wood grain is biger in diameter its 14 inch
were the black ones 13 inch .. ? :huh:

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Posted 17 June 2007 - 06:19 PM

had a wood grain one in my hand today, guy wanted $250 for it, good cond, but still think ours is right original onwers say so,

Bit of a pickle really, how would this affect us at shows????????

Could always steal the one of the HK, when the wife isnt looking

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Posted 17 June 2007 - 06:56 PM

Hi

I had a '69 LC GTR. It was 18 months old when I bought it and it had the black vinyl steering wheel.

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Posted 17 June 2007 - 07:22 PM

I have mates who had GTRs and Xu1s since 69/70, Adelaide bought and have not seen brown wheel on any, only HK Monaros
If some one wants to sell a brown (woodgrain) wheel my son in law needs one for his HK Monaro, which currently has black one fitted.

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Posted 18 June 2007 - 02:37 PM

thats very refreshing to hear others have the same wheel,

Limo I never bought anything of this guy, it was at sydney toy swap meet, you can get them new repro from Rares

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Posted 01 July 2007 - 11:20 PM

I have a LC GTR 9/70 adelaide built with a woodgrain steering wheel

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Posted 04 July 2007 - 09:24 PM

Someone must have changed it, all 1970 cars had black rimmed wheels with the stainless outer, my 11/1970 Adelaide built GTR has the black wheel as fitted from new. :D

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Posted 05 July 2007 - 03:15 PM

again I say who is to know, we all go one about this and that some peoples cars are 100% original and there different in little ways, maybe end of line,friday car etc, I wanna know if we was to be knocked down on points on this matter in a nationals???????

As we know that speaking with original owners son the car is as new with this wheel, so where do we stand??

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Posted 05 July 2007 - 08:32 PM

im keen to know others opinions on this too. my 8/70 xu1 came with a sportline wheel which ive removed as ive got a woodgrain orig type for it. it would look better as a black rim tho as the wood look is the only brown bit in the cockpit & doesnt match anything. could i / should i alter it with black etch??

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Posted 06 July 2007 - 04:09 PM

anyone got there wood wheel repaired?
mine has 3 cracks and i want to get it fixed
any places in sydney that could do this and how much

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