Sandlewood brown interior stuff
 

What are my options with replacing the original steering wheel and dash that was a lighter color of brown? I believe it was called sandlewood. Is the only brown color reproduced the "saddle" shade? It is a 72 with parchment trim optioned truck.

Mothertruckers carries Sandalwood dash pads. I've never seen any NOS or reproduction steering wheels.

So at one time there was a light brown steering wheel?

I believe there was, but here is a pick of an original Sandlewood '70 door panel. If you have a '72 with Parchment trim, then your dash is probably not Sandlewood. Maybe fawn? www.brotherstrucks.com has a nice color selector, but their sandlewood color for dash pads looks a little off. Hope this helps.

According to the colors of choice on the "Brothers" website sandlewood is what my old dash looked like. Sooo, was there such a thing as a Sandlewood steering wheel?

Yes there was a sandalwood wheel. My 72 GMC had sandalwood dashpad, bezel, wheel and column with parchment door panels and seat.

Thanks for clearing that up StingRay. I didn't mean to post false info, I've just never seen the two put together, and since the two are so close in color, I never imagined that it would have been factory. Sorry.

Hugger it could be me that's wrong. I have only ever heard of the beige color in our trucks refered to as sandalwood. It's actually only listed as parchment trim on the options list. Any of the vendors I have asked about it have called it sandalwood too.

Can you post a pic of the steering wheel & dash?

Here's the Sandlewood dash color now who's got the steering wheel?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ashpad6772.jpg :confused:

My 71 GMC is listed as having parchment trim. The steering wheel dash pad and bezel were sandalwood. All that's been replaced with a combination of parchmentand saddle though as I didn't much care for the sandlewood color. Door panels, seat and visors were all parchment.

Here's a pic of the dash/column and seat in my 72 C20 Burb... Sandlewood dashpad,column,wheel, Parchment seats,doorpanels & sunvisors with a light brownish colored carpet. I also posted pic's of the glovebox ID, just says parchment trim... ;)


Don't mind the mess, this is one of the pics from when I pulled it out of the field... :barf:

Nobody makes a reproduction Sandalwood steering wheel. You will have to look for a used one. My Blazer came with one (I have it in the garage), but the sun took it's toll on it. Same with my dash pad. I hope to buy one of the sandalwood dash pads that Mothertruckers sells (they are the only place I have seen them still listed.