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Old 02-07-2013, 11:46 PM   #68
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Re: Stock Steering Wheel Whos Keeping Them And Why ?

And MY truck has a steering wheel from some '70s Caprice. I can just see what happens when the thing stalls (rare, I'm a mechanic, but just suppose), and my wife with those pencil arms tries to steer it? I'd like a stock "school bus" steering wheel back, just for that reason. Now, where can I get one not made out of Chinesium? I put a '70 truck four row radiator in my '68 Skylark (yeah, I like some cooling performance, and Buick didn't offer it), and bought the clamps from the dealer. They were made in China. I felt sold out. I worked for GM, at Chevy dealers and at the assembly division in Van Nuys, CA in the early '70s. My dad would be turning 12 grand in his grave (if he hadn't been cremated and tossed out in the Pacific Ocean), if he knew that GM was buying parts in chinee. Me, I just told the counterman what I thought, without ripping his head off, because it really isn't his doing.
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