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?
opinions?

 

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.

 

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.

 

looks like a fiero gt wheel

 

yup...fiero wheel

 

In the early eighties, Pontiac put that wheel in everything. That could even be out of an old sunbird.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I know what you mean--I have a nice leather wheel in the T/A now-came from an 89 Turbo Grand Am--awesome little car--had GTA seats in it too-stock!! The wheel looks just like the Formy wheel. Nice and thick w/gray leather.
BTW--after I read the post about the Fiero wheel--got to thinking--there wasn't any Fiero emblem in it.

 

Here's a pic of the vinyl Formy wheel--looks exactly alike!

 

Not all of the fiero wheels got the fiero symbol on them expesicaly the gt models.

 

ok-but did they say Pontiac in the middle?

 

yes the one in my driveway does say pontiac in the middle.

 

Actually ALL Fiero wheels got the Pegasus emblem in em.. EVEN the GT's

 

ok-so where does that leave us now?
Where did this steering wheel come from?

 

My vote is still early sunbird.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

Dan

 

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)