OK fellow gear heads, I picked this up in a box lot auction last night. No idea what it came off of. Anyone have any ideas? I thought at first a 61-66 C10 but it doesn’t really match. It is 18 inches in diameter, outside edge to outside edge.
It hardly looks like it's from something automotive. My guess would be, it's from a boat of some brand
Ivy - Maybe, but it was mounted to a shaft that was cut off, and had a spring and collar under it. It also has a horn actuator hole as well, not just solid, and looks like it had a horn ring or rim on it at one time. The box lot I got it in had another three spoke wheel in it that is in really bad shape. It also had external door mirrors in it, one for 67 Camaro, a pair for 73-87 Chevy/GMC trucks, as well as other miscellaneous car parts. That's what leads me to believe it is auto and not boat. bcschief - Good question. I didn't see it earlier because it was covered in dirt, but looking at the back of the wheel inside the center ring is the number 70 at about the 6:30 position. Nothing else, just 70. Oh, it also had a suicide knob on it that I took off and put on my 63 Country Sedan, another thing that makes me think it is auto since you wouldn't need one on a boat.
I was about to guess Corvair van, until I looked it up. I didn't even see 2-spokers that had both spokes running almost to a straight line with one another. However, the search results could have been misleading. One of the reasons I was thinking vans was because the spokes are almost flat with the rim. On passenger cars, the modern ones have the horn moved away from the driver, requiring the rim to be closer, for reasons of reducing injuries through collision. On a van, it wouldn't make any difference, being that the wheel sits almost perpendicular. I'd measure the horn mounting pattern against that of different brands. There would be no reason for changing the pattern within brands
