<VV> Naked Steering Wheel

[NicolCS@aol.com]

Well, here's a subject should be, "well in hand". <ggg>
I have purchased Superior products leather wheel covers and, after lots of 
time and effort, they have worked out well.  I had to source them directly from 
Superior and pay full-bore as these are no longer commonly stocked items in 
the FLAPS.

Once in hand, You have to open one of the folded edges to refold it with a 
larger overlap. this narrows it for the Corvair's thin steering wheel.  After 
narrowing, I then pressed the new seam with an iron and reglued it.  The next 
issue involved the wheel diameter.  The cover is designed for a smaller diameter 
wheel.  It can be stretched, with immense effort, over the steering wheel.  
At the start of the process, the cover will be a "D" shape.  By working the 
corners of the "D", the cover can be slowly coaxed over the wheel.  As I write 
this, I vaguely recall pre-stretching the cover somehow.  I'll have to think and 
remember how that went.  Ahh, now I remember, I used the Corvair jack and a 
piece of 2x4. After stretching it into place, the final step was to sew the 
cover on - that probably took another hour.  For one car, the whole project 
easily took-up most of a day. Both my '67 and '66 have these leather covers.
Craig Nicol

Now, on to my real subject, which is covering the steering wheel. I've
been using Clark's very economical offering, but I prefer the leather feel
of the familiar Wheelskins product to the look and feel of the vinyl item
offered by Clark's. I just put on a Wheelskins that I ordered from a
non-Corvair vendor and it's the smallest standard size offered by
Wheelskins, but it's too big around the grip (overall wheel diameter is OK,
but grip, at 2-1/8", is too big (see first paragraph above).