steering wheels

[landon1]

I finally got my fender tags and broadcast sheet completely decoded. Does anybody know for sure that the woodgrain steering wheel option is the rim-blow wheel, because that's the only woodgrain wheel I've seen. Also, all of the woodgrain wheels I've seen have balck horn buttons, but my broadcast sheet says B7 Evening Blue. Does anybody know if woodgrain wheels could have colored centers?

[road chicken]

The "regular" steering wheel was interior color with a wood grain insert in the spokes. Unless you had a runner, then it had an RR emblem in the center as well

The two optional Wheels were the "tuff"- 3 silver spokes and rubber grip.

Rimblow- 3 Silver spokes, woodgrain grips and there is rubber strip that runs the diameter of the grip. That is the horn switch.
Rim blows are easy to see, as they have no provision for the horn on the center hub. Just a metal disk to retain the cosmetic cover.

[Dave]

Actually the 3 spoke wheel with the woodgrain center (and 3 horn buttons) was the wheel you got with the deluxe interior. Base interior cars had the slim 3 spoke wheel with the large padded center horn button (with the RR logo in it).

There was also a specific wheel that came with the tilt column option, but as you can imagine, you rarely see those.

Specifically what broadcast sheet code are you looking at as far as the steering wheel?

[landon1]

It is the S81 wheel-it says woodgrain wheel on the decoding website, which I guess could be called woodgrain because of the center. I usually think of the outer rim for a wheel to be called woodgrain. The weird thing is that it says my steering wheel was B7 blue, but the seats B5 blue-I figured they would match? Here's a question: cars that had the B5 blue interior should have everything B5 Blue, right? All I've been seeing for headliners are light, medium, and dark blue. Same for package trays, but I have a non-faded part under the package tray that looks more like light blue. Do you guys think the bright blue interiors had a lot of light blue in them, too?

[71440 gtx]

the light blue would be b3 interior, the medium blue would be a b5 interior and the dark blue would be a b7 interior. my car is b5 and b7. so it would be dark and medium blue

[landon1]

So you would have like b5 seats and door panels and then b7 carpet, dash, and headliner areas?

[71440 gtx]

The upper door panels are b5 blue, and the seats are b5 blue. The lower door panels, dash, headliner and carpet are b7 blue Confusing eh?

[landon1]

Yeah, but some mopar interiors are strange -like the 71 hemi charger on ebay right now. Gray exterior, all black interior, except the upper door panels were gray. Another one I don't get is the white seats and the rest black. I figured maybe the blue interior would be different-nope.

[road chicken]

There was also a specific wheel that came with the tilt column option, but as you can imagine, you rarely see those.

Well you don't see them in B- Bodies very much. I think I have seen one. Just look at any C body with the tilt column. Same wheel. We had one in our 72 NY'r Brougham.

[Eric]

Yeah, but some mopar interiors are strange -like the 71 hemi charger on ebay right now. Gray exterior, all black interior, except the upper door panels were gray. Another one I don't get is the white seats and the rest black. I figured maybe the blue interior would be different-nope.

I don't believe that car is correct. I seem to remember seeing gray lower door panels on 71s...could be that's all that was available when the interior was redone...(it was)