As the title says: looking to add some more wood to my interior. The factory steering although nice, it is a bit on the thin side. I cant decide on a wood steering wheel design. The E-Type design with the holes in the spokes looks interesting but so do some options from Nardi and NRG.
Would love to see some wheels for Series 1-3 interiors.

 

, of all places. I already had the hub.

 

That wheels looks good. My only gripe with this design is that its a bit thin and usually the wood grip notches on the back of the wheels arent as rounded but more jagged feeling.

 

Over the decades I've tried various brands but always end up coming back to Nardi.



Cheers
DD

 

Here is the Mota-Lita range. This link is to page 2 of many, but the first one is a wood with a thicker grip:
https://www.moto-lita.co.uk/collecti...-wheels?page=2

 

I have the Nardi

 

This looks nice. Do you recall the Nardi model # for this one? My car's a british racing green with a tan interior like yours - thanks for posting!

 

Was on the car when I got it, Keep your old wheel if you decide to enter the car in any jcna sanctioned shows, they deduct points for not being original! Ask me how I know! Lol

 

My 85 now wears a Nardi. Matches perfectly and it's smaller diameter makes driving fo much more pleasant. I went with black spokes. I feel the silver ones tend to clash with the dash. But, to each his/her own.

 

I don't like ANY steering wheel that blocks the line-of-sight view of the gauges, regardless of brand.
As can be seen in the previous pictures, some gauges are blocked from view due to the spokes being oriented to the 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock position.

Jaguar factory steering wheel spokes are "neutral" at the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions, so the gauges aren't blocked.
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The guages are not really blocked,. I had to pull my phone so far back to get the whole wheel in the picture. In my regular driving position (head/eye), arr guages are easily visible. I sit quite high up!

 

I like my two Momo wheels. One is Momo Germany, the other is Momo Italy.

The spokes are at 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock. One is black leather, the other is wood.
And a thick grip for my large neandarthal hands.

 

Just to toss out more options....

Nardi also makes some very nice leather wheels as well. Here's one in my TR6



Cheers
DD

 

my Momo Italy 15" inch, I covered it with leather, feels good...Spokes at 4 o'clock and 8" o'clock.

the other image is my 1965 S type leather steering wheel sold by Moss Motors under the name "Tourist Trophy", in wood or leather, thin or thick grip, the spokes are at 2 o'clock and 11 o'clock but the only gauges behind the steering wheel of the S type are the giant speedo and tach, the other gauges are away, so there is no line-of-sight obstruction.