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Re: Jim's 1969 Custom/20
I drove my truck from Carlsbad up to LA and back September 27-28, 2011 for a dawn patrol urban surf session at El Porto with my buddy. Put about 280 miles round trip on the rumbling beast with no complaints, a lot of freeway driving at 60-65 mph most of the time. Everything ran bi+chen.
The steering wheel not only looks cool, but felt OK, too. The rim is a little thin and the circumference seems a bit large for my hands to rest on it comfortably in the 10-2 oclock positions, that's my harshest criticism. Lots of room to get in and out of the truck, more so than the stock wheel, it's offset slightly more (1/2"). Now I'm thinking in terms of a repro 67 Vette wheel and horn button rather than a Grant. Looks like about $500 to change it over the way I want, so I'll be deferring this for a while. I can just swap with the Vette now and again, it isnt too difficult to do. Maybe I should try using the stock truck wheel in the Vette, that would look pretty dumb I bet haha. (maybe I'll edit a pic of that in here later for fun).
Peace
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