Who feels like doing something frivolous? You do, that’s who. Frivolous, but also frightfully important. It’s Car Part Identification time again, where you get to exercise the vitally important part of your brain in charge of being able to visually identify car parts! According to our medical intern, this is the same part of the brain responsible for feeling when someone is looking at you, so it’s a crucially important part of your brain to keep healthy.
Today’s challenge involves a steering wheel, one repurposed to be part of a piece of playground equipment. This bit of playground equipment was spotted at the campsite we stayed at by Watkins Glen yesterday as we traveled for our big Lime Rock Members Only Track Day. It appears to be a sort of racing machine, with big Mickey Thompson racing tires at the rear and some skinny ones up front that look like they could fit on my 2CV.
I’m not really sure this format of racing car has a real-world analogue, though it does feel like a Mario Kart racing kart, constructed all out of weathered wood.
It’s a novel bit of locally-produced automotive-themed racing equipment, and I appreciate that. So let’s look at the one actual car part, aside from the tires, used on this thing:
That’s not some playground-equipment knockoff wheel. This is the real deal, from an actual, functioning automobile. So, the question now is: can you identify it?
I think you can. I say this because I’m pretty sure I have, and I think all of you are as capable of such inane feats as me. But it wasn’t that easy. Still, I suspect there will be those of you who might get it almost immediately. I’m curious to see how it plays out, so, as always, please be honest in the comments for, you know, science.
And, if you’d like the answer – or, at least, what I believe is the answer, click here!
Got this one easily.
I was going to say it’s from an Allis Chalmers D21 tractor. However, when doublechecking it turns out I have remembered incorrectly as the tractor steering wheel has 3 spokes and not 2.
Torch – I think you’re answer is correct.
It’s from a mid 60’s GM product.
Dimensions or radius would be good. But center horn two support bars looks kind of large. I’d say pickup or a bluebird school but steering wheel
I didn’t match but you can’t tell me this is the only vehicle this was on
This looks an awful lot like my 66 C10 steering wheel so that is my guess
gotta be a tractor wheel, international harvester maybe
I didn’t come close. It looked so big I thought it was from an early 60s medium duty truck or bus.
Forget the steering wheel.
You aren’t going to tell us the tyre size and make of the huge rubber at the rear? What racing car were they from?
The front tires don’t look bad at all. Jason was sizing them up. Tomorrow morning they might be replaced with concrete blocks.
They look like they might be grass tires, for a tractor
1970s Ford product, base trim
No idea about the steering wheel but the car looks like a discarded prototype of the Cybertruck.
I beg to differ, it looks better than a Cybertruck
I was going to guess Rolls Royce Silver Shadow
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275607868272
or Ferguson tractor.
Those Mickey Thompson Sportsman Pro tires are nice. For some reason they don’t make that tread pattern anymore and the new tread is ugly. Safer in the rain, but who is going to use a tire like that in the rain?
Almost certainly ’50s to early ’60s GM with that missing horn ring. Guessing Tri-5 Chevy as they were ubiquitous.
1960-66 Chevy/GMC pickup truck: https://www.classicindustries.com/product/cx1697.html?srsltid=AfmBOopASXW6kYQ5RUwLXHaxIajNEHkZjJAGUzS324jYsAGYjAMyHctl
https://c.cdn.autotraderspecialty.com/1965-Chevrolet-C_K_Truck-Classic_Trucks–Car-101716482-7c839057517ae7576d4e693a600c5403.jpg
Ooh. Elon redesigned the roadster!
Can’t complain about panel gaps when there aren’t any panels!
Can’t complain about wood screws when it’s all wood!
That was my first thought when I saw the exposed fasteners on the Slate.
Rule of thumb was to set boards one screw width apart.
Agree on the early 60s C/K.
63 Chevy II? The grooves in the spokes are for the horn ring.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/314405081592
I think GM, and Chevrolet, used wheels like this on more than just their trucks.
I know the British Leyland parts bin.
That wheel is not from a BL product.
I will bet you can never guess what fits perfectly in the light-bulb apertures as a replacement for a failing electrical system for the rear light clusters on a 1980 Rover SD1…
Er, 3500 or whatever they called it here…
Here’s my guess: Several sticks of dynamite?
Haha….well, while driving across country and in the great state of Ohio, I doubt they’d want scattered bits of a shitty old Rover.
However, cheap LED flashlights from Walmart fit PERFECTLY…
“shitty old Rover.”
That’s redundant.
I’ve actually managed to get two shitty old Rovers across the US of A…
Just search for Lotus Esprits in scrapyards for spares…
A penny
Replacement smoke? Ha ha
Amazing you were able to determine what vehicle it wasn’t from. I’m very impressed. NOT. LOL
Steering Wheel – Black Standard – 60-65 Chevrolet GMC CK Truck ???
Had a 1960 Chevy Panel Van with this wheel, except it was white.