Hey there, I'm sharing some pictures of my steering wheel restoration process.
It's the beginning of my first car restoration (not counting few duct tape patches on the upholstery I already done for the car)
The "original" (putting quotation marks because all the interior is not the one it was built with, but it's how I bought the car) wheel was all cracked, decent size chunks were missing, only one of four paint dividers was left, metal rusty, everything inside the honk assembly was covered with mold and smelled funny. So I cleaned it up, polished some chrome, fixed cracks, filed new grooves for the dividers, primed few thousand times, painted and covered with few layers of clear coat. Will see how durable it's going to be.
63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
Looks great! And it's something you can hold and admire everytime you sit behind it. Of course on top of all that, in my mind, it's vital to have an original wheel.
It's a job in my own 65 I fretted over doing for a while, but turned out to be not so difficult, and has held up very well.
Thanks:)
At some point, when the whole car is more or less ready i'll try to address the clear parts, maybe will get resin printer by that moment, will model and print two halves and glue them with some transparent glue.
I just used the regular car body repair kit for big cracks (where whole areas were missing) and JBWeld for the smaller cracks and where something needed to be glued and sturdy.
The first one - I don't really like, you have to be ridiculously fast with it and it seems it's gotten shrunk after paint layer was sprayed. So I had to fill new smaller cracks with that JBWeld also.
Nice job on the wheel! I could be wrong but the center cap looks like a 66. If you want a 65, I have one that is not in perfect shape, but free if you want it.
Thanks.
Ouch! I didn't notice that it's a wrong one, good catch.
This is how I got the car, it's also green:(
Now I need to track what else is from 66 there or from something else. Almost sure the front bench is not even from Pontiac and door interior panels look just a tiny bit longer than they supposed to be so they rub against the rear wall panels.
Huge thanks, that would be awesome! And it's black.
I can cover the shipping.
