This is the cockpit before:
So it looks sort of odd - you have this wood dash with ally rimmed dials, then these rather incongruous plastic stalks and a black steering wheel. Steering wheel is just too large too - catches my leg.
On to ebay and got some ally stalks. There was a company called Leven Technology who used to make these types of thing for TVRs, but they were in the process of being sold when I was looking for these, so ebay came to the rescue. Moto-Lita, on the other hand is a cottage industry knocking out quality steering wheels made by skilled personnel. They supply all sorts of cars their wheels, but mostly in the classic car arena.
I ordered a 12" wheel, with holes, and a black leather rim:
This is the old wheel off the car:
Because Moto-Lita don't make a steering wheel boss for my car, they supplied an adaptor ring to fit my car's original boss. This is great, but the boss is black, and all Moto-Lita's supplied gear is polished. So bit of a dilemma. I decided to give the boss a polish. This is the before shot:
and this is about 75% of the way through polishing (didn't get an 'after' shot - was getting late):
I'd ordered a horn push too, because the old one wouldn't fit my new wheel, and it was a nasty plastic piece of crap too!
Anyway, this is the 'after' photo for the job:
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