Is this a stock Trans Am wheel?
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Is this a stock Trans Am wheel?
I was floating ebay and I came across this steering wheel--says it's a stock Trans Am wheel, but I've never seen a stock wheel like this. notice the horn button?
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Car: 92 Trans Am 'Vert
Engine: 305 TPI
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It seems to be a stock design wheel used primarily in 87 GTA's. The brown leather and Pontiac horn button how ever arent stock.
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I realized that once I saw it. The horn button looks factory--but not for an f-body. I'm very curious as to what it came from. At 1st I thought it was from a Tojan-but I don't think it would say Pontiac on the horn cap.
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Car: 2001 Firehawk - SLP Longtubes
Engine: LS1
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In the early eighties, Pontiac put that wheel in everything. That could even be out of an old sunbird.
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Really? Just like that? I've never seen that type of steering wheel in anything but a T/A or GTA. Thing looks to be in really nice shape-too bad it's brown.
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Car: 2001 Firehawk - SLP Longtubes
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Yep. Kinda like the old h-frame they started using in the late eighties. My 89 Formula had the same wheel as my 90 Grand Am. Parts bin stuff man. GM built the corporation around it.
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Car: 2001 Firehawk - SLP Longtubes
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By the way, I don't think that is a fiero wheel, they had a fiero emblem in the middle. I think that may actually be from a sunfire or P1000.
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Originally posted by Redarrow1
Yep. Kinda like the old h-frame they started using in the late eighties. My 89 Formula had the same wheel as my 90 Grand Am. Parts bin stuff man. GM built the corporation around it.
Yep. Kinda like the old h-frame they started using in the late eighties. My 89 Formula had the same wheel as my 90 Grand Am. Parts bin stuff man. GM built the corporation around it.
BTW--after I read the post about the Fiero wheel--got to thinking--there wasn't any Fiero emblem in it.
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Originally posted by Bluerocket
Not all of the fiero wheels got the fiero symbol on them expesicaly the gt models.
Not all of the fiero wheels got the fiero symbol on them expesicaly the gt models.
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I've definitely have to look for one then.
Have you guys seen the early Pontiac 6000 cars that had the radio controls in the steering wheels? Same thing as the GTA's--radios are the same too. I bet they could be retrofitted to work in our cars!! Matter of fact I'm going to grab a setup next time I run into one.
Have you guys seen the early Pontiac 6000 cars that had the radio controls in the steering wheels? Same thing as the GTA's--radios are the same too. I bet they could be retrofitted to work in our cars!! Matter of fact I'm going to grab a setup next time I run into one.
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Car: 2001 Firehawk - SLP Longtubes
Engine: LS1
Transmission: T56
There are so many parts that are interchangeable. Radios, door handles, seatbelt covers, seats, speakers, etc. Whenever I am at a junk yard, I always check the Pontiac section, not just the camaro/firebird section. I have found a lot of trim items for my 89 Formula out of Grand Ams and Grand Prixs and Sunbirds.
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Pontiac minivans have some good parts they some timmes are newer and the parts are better. I know transports have both dome light setups in them and they have the theature option.
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The Fiero wheel has a slightly smaller circumference than the T/A wheel. Its hard to see what size that wheel is, but if anyone has ever seen that style of leather wrapped wheel on a Sunfire or a Sunbird or a T1000 you must have been smokin' crack at the time. That style of leather wrapped wheel was ONLY used from 85-90 on T/A's and GTA's with the leather wheel/shift ****/e-brake option, provided that the car didn't have the remote stereo controls. Oh yeah, and the slightly smaller wheel of the same design used on the SE and GT Fiero models with that option package. As for the horn button, they are interchangeable and it is more than likely out of a Sunbird or a 6000.
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Car: 2001 Firehawk - SLP Longtubes
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Ok einstein, the last time that wheel was used in a firebird was 87. Period. I have seen in an old sales brochure that wheel used in a Sunbird convertable. And I had an old T1000/Chevette and it had that wheel in it (minus the leather)
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