the Mercury Quicksilver Ride Guide steering for outboard boats

https://dorsettbelmont.blogspot.com/2015/06/vintage-mercury-quick-silver-ride-guide.html

a new to me fatman/tilt lok design

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9241645802569672&set=gm.10161052681932481&idorvanity=119087132480

one bar was for steering the other was for speed, in the 1916 Milburn Electric

https://www.ottosoldautos.com/cars/1916-milburn-light-electric

It's been a long time since I went to all the local car shows and would come across the cool old optional steering wheels. 1940 Chevrolet business coupe.

 

Gordon Murray S1 LM is a styling design, and not a functioning car, and since it's only ever going to be pushed around museums and car shows, they insert a steering wheel into the back, between the tail lights, to steer it! Thank you Marc!

skip the 1st 40 seconds, and you'll see that the steering wheel in the back stays in place while transporting the car. 

how many steering wheels does a car manufacturer need to stock?

"we only need three, maybe four different versions of a steering wheel. At the moment, we have over 100!”

Audi CEO, Gernot Döllner

 https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/367690/end-s-line-audi-boss-promises-less-range-complexity-and-choice-future-models

this has to be the 1st time I've seen a race car steering wheel decorated with postage stamps

 

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/207965/oval-racing-thread?page=6

There are a lot of cool things shared on Facebook

I’ve became friends with the man who owns my dad’s 67 Chevelle.

He’s taken extremely great care of the car and restored it to a better car than we had growing up. As he was upgrading certain things on the car, I asked him to not get rid of the steering wheel if he hadn’t already. I knew it was old and he would prolly replace it with a better shape or new. 

Little did I know I would come home from a business trip to find my dad’s steering wheel in a box he had shipped to me. 

I immediately cried tears of joy just remembering the conversations me and my dad had as he grasp that wheel talking to me as a child all through high school.

Such a happy moment for me and lucky to have met such decent people in the hot rod world. Holding the steering wheel my dad taught me how to drive with was so special.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=796567779166634&set=a.556433083180106

Sammy Davis inspecting the Cadillac steering wheel for 1956 ElDorado

https://www.facebook.com/vintagecelebritycar/photos/p.2497030487054591/2497030487054591/?type=3

steering wheel from a 1920 Davis Touring

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/1217584772155776/

accessory steering wheel/column installed on a 1925 Ford.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10166401914680084&set=pcb.10166390512600548

I don't think I've ever learned of a marble steering wheel until this one on a 1938 Chris Craft Sportsman

http://www.antiqueboatsales.com/1938ChrisCraftSportsman19Foot.html

I dig it... but then, it's some melding of airplane /boat /and car steering wheel design

https://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2022/03/21/things-are-getting-strange-today-live-ish-from-fla-and-new-jersey-and-reedville/

two-tone Vollrath single spoke steering wheel

 https://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2013/08/18/where-the-heck-is-chetek-and-why-should-anyone-care/

I don't think I've posted about Josh Shaw before

https://nbm.uberflip.com/i/1346648-april-21/44?

BMW's latest take on the steering wheel

https://carbuzz.com/news/bmws-crazy-new-steering-wheel-makes-tesla-yoke-look-normal

"You took down Captain Bob's steering wheel!?!!" from the movie Hudson Hawk, 1991, a lesson in the "Noodle Incident" tv trope

does anyone know what the story was behind making a big deal about a steering wheel in the movie?

How could you take this down? Captain Bob's steering wheel!

 Remember that night he came in? Nobody could figure where he got this.

The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words—or perhaps too offensive for depiction—and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations. 

Named for an incident referenced by the characters of Calvin and Hobbes, where the author admitted he decided against ever stating what happened, as he figured nothing he could come up with would be as outrageous as what the readers thought happened

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident

ever heard of the joystick Impala?

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-113#post-13184323

the Ford vs Chevy race to dominate any and every aspect of the automotive world resulted in a lot of similar things, like the ponycars, Mustang and Camaro, the car trucks, Ranchero and El Camino, the 427 vs 427, and the wrist twist steering

1st photo is the Mercury Wrist Twist if I recall correctly, and bottom is the Chevy Turbo Titan III

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1097#post-3298297comp

there is a business in Three Lakes Wisconsin that sells vintage boat stuff, Fine Wood Boats

and might have what you need for your hot rod, or vintage Chris Craft...

http://www.finewoodboats.com/

plus a couple photos from the 1962 races. How cool are these trucks!!!

https://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2020/04/02/fine-wood-boats-where-to-find-classic-boat-parts-in-these-parts/
https://www.facebook.com/WoodyBoater/photos/a.258067450929154/2760652937337247