Steering wheel interchangeability?

[Scot_Douglas]

I was thinking of using another "vintage" GM steering wheel in my 66. With having power steering and a much quicker ratio with a rack, I'd like something that is a smaller diameter without looking entirely aftermarket and cheap / fake / out of character. I've searched many different key words here and can't find any specific info - a couple of hours turned up info on racks, pumps, columns, but nothing about wheels.

Hopefully someone has an idea what (if anything) is interchangeable with our trucks. I'm really digging the way the Impala SS wheels look - and I also found a NOS Af/x wooden wheel like I remember in some of my family's cars from when I was just a wee lad.

Just a big ignorant at the moment and hoping to learn.

Thanks!

[andyspinstriping]

I am building a 61 Cadillac for my wife and I wanted to know the same thing so I took her wheel off her car and it fit on my 61 Apache. Looks pretty sweet too!

[markeb01]

Here's my input on what will fit, from an earlier thread:

For a 60-66 truck just about any GM passenger car steering wheel from about 1955 up until 1967 or so should bolt on to a 60-66 truck column and work correctly, although there may be some parts swapping needed to match up the turn signal mechanism with the cancelling device on the back of the wheel.

In my experience the diameter and spline count of GM steering columns were common from the late 30’s until at least the 1980’s. So in technical theory you could mount a 1965 Oldsmobile steering wheel in a 1948 Chevy, or a 1951 Olds wheel in a 1956 Buick. In reality some wheels have a deep dish while others are flat. A 1961 Olds wheel can be bolted on a 1951 car, but the deep dish of the wheel will put the rim up near the headliner. Just stick with a wheel from a similar column design. For example a Chevy passenger car column up until 1952 did not have a built in turn signal housing. 1953 and 54 cars had a turn signal bell, and 1955-57 cars used similar turn signal mechanisms, but the steering wheel was now dished. In 1969 the diameter of the column housing increased, so wheels from this period are larger around at the base than the earlier columns.

[Scot_Douglas]

Thank you Sir!!!

Scot