I have to say this was the most unusual steering wheel I’ve ever seen. Let us know what you think it is, and if you have a guess on the car itself, let them fly!
(Shaun Redmond is disqualified from this round, as he was with me on this event.)
Pulling out a bit:
How about this?:
Revel in that caught hail mary pass John!
You’re a WINNER!
perspex? and like I’d know the car…. 😉
Jerome
Hmm..appears to be a RHD, with a Wilson pre-selector gearbox…beyond that, I’m *stumped*!
An acrylic wheel (I thought it was chrome at first) with a St Christopher motif in the boss. Annoyingly I can’t read the 70s MGB like square gauge. Armstrong-Siddeleys had pre-selector gearboxes and that would fir with the RHD but it’s just a guess. That steering wheel is really troubling though -what happens in a crash?
PS Does the radio also have big perspex/plexiglass knobs, too or do I need my eyes tested?
think you are right Mad Dog – perhaps the car is the very first ‘pimped’ car?
Jerome
Square gauge looks very VW Beetle, but the signal stalk is not.
Chuck, I think a clue is in order…we are clearly flailing…
Chuck, I’ve become quite obsessed with this quiz and it’s driving me mental…
My first thought (other than the plastic steering wheel) was that the chrome device was a pre-selector. Vroomie had already suggested this before I commented and had gone so far as to say it was a Wilson. I am not very familiar with these devices but I’m sure he’s correct. The one marque that I was aware had these fitted was Armstrong Siddeley. A friend of mine bought a knackered Sapphire for £40 back in 1970 and thought he was very cool. However I can’t find a single picture of an A-S dashboard on Google so I’m stuck. Wikipedia says that Wilsons were also fitted to Daimler, Alvis and Talbot-Lago as well as German Tiger tanks and London buses! Now I’m confident in ruling out military machinery and anything used by London transport. And I can’t believe the owner of a Talbot Lago would pimp his/her car with plastic parts. So that leaves Alvis (don’t think so) and British Daimler (quite possible but which one? -a Conquest or something like that) as well as my original A-S suggestion. And then there’s the red herring of the perspex wheel….? Please put me out of my misery!
You are getting warmer, but here is a big, helpful hint (along with two other photos I just added): It is NOT a British car.
–chuck
Chuck: You’re making things worse. Not only do I have no clue working from memory, but I can’t even figure it out using Google. The only other vehicle I can find that has a pre-selector is an Auto Union but I think they were only fitted to the race cars and not luxury tourers. Some Italian cars were made in RHD (Lancias etc) for the domestic market because they figured it was safer to drive closer to the kerb (a bit like our mail delivery Jeeps) but I don’t know of any with pre-selectors. The interior of this car appears somewhat English with all the wood and leather but the gauges look German or French. I think I’m going to concede defeat on this one although it irks me to do so. And that steering wheel is really troubling -it has a lot of microcracks in the plastic and looks horrendously dangerous. Bah…!
P.S. This is a longshot guess: could it be a Delahaye?
Hah! Got it (even though it was a guess)…!