Has anyone replaced the "bus" steering wheel from a series3? Looking to replace mine with an aftermarket wooden wheel with a smaller diameter.

 

Plenty of owners install aftermarket wheels.

Here's a Nardi in my old Ser III and a Moto_lita in my XJS

Cheers
DD

 

I prefer thick grip leather, but I replaced my extra-large, thin crust pizza steering wheel with a 15½" Momo Olympic which is no longer made. Also replaced the family-sized thin crust pizza steering wheel in my S type with a 15" black leather wheel with extra grip. Those are sold by Moss Motors in Goleta Calif. They are called Tourist Trophy. Made in China but the quality is fabulous.

 

The original steering wheel on the Series 3 is 15 1/2 inches. I am looking at something smaller than that. I do not want to replace a 15 1/2 for another 15 1/2 wheel. Any other suggestions?

 

Yeah! Google! Search "14 inch wood steering wheel" and you'll get lots of hits

Here's a 14" Nardi

Nardi Steering Wheel Classic Wood Polished 360 mm New | eBay



Cheers
DD

 

the factory steering wheel is 16-7/8" diameter, aka 17".

 

I remeasured both the Series 2 and Series 3 steering wheels that I have. They are both 15 1/2 inch diameter wheels. Is this odd?

 

Doug, Do I have to purchase a separate hub or is this 14" a bolt on to the original jaguar hub. I went on the Nardi site but the info is limited. I will try to make a phone call sometime today. Thanks.

 

and you want smaller than that?

 

Glad you mentioned that.

I was going to say that you'll need a Nardi hub to go with a Nardi wheel and, of course, it has to be Jaguar specific as well. So....don't buy any Nardi wheel unless it comes with the correct hub OR you have located a Nardi-Jaguar hub individually.

New or good used Nardi wheels are easy to buy. The hub, not so much! If Nardi itself still offers the correct hub please let us know.

Cheers
DD

 

you can get the hub at Moss Motors.

 

@Doug, what is the white car behind the XJ6?

That Nardi wheel looks tasty.

 

Silver, actually. 1978 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. It was in the family for years and years. I bought it sometime in the 80s, as I recallo with about 30k miles, drive it till about 100k, gave it to my dad (who already had another just like it, but green) and he put another 50k on it. Gawd, what a car! It was like driving a pillow. Room to s-t-r-e-t-c-h out, dead quiet, armchair seats. It was a dream to drive....until you had to turn a corner :-). Had great brakes, though.. Huge things. They'd stop on a dime and give ya two cents change!

At the time the Olds 98s were known as "Senators' cars" because so many members of the US Senate drove 'em....or so the story goes. A few years later almost all the big American land yachts were gone with only the Crown Victoria soldiering on.

Just got rid of it a couple years ago. Still ran like a watch but the body rusted out ...and Dad was too old to drive it anyway. Almost all of the luxury gizmos still worked, too. I sold it to a guy who wanted the engine, transmission, and limited slip diff.

As you can tell I loved that car. My kids called it "The Enterprise" :-).

I thought so, too. I think the calssic style Nardi goes well with Jaguar interior design

Cheers
DD

 

Doug:

That rascally Ted Kennedy drove his OLDS 98 into the drink. He got his sorry a.. out and left the Kopechny gal in it to drown. Got away with it, too????

In about the early 70's I was driving to work on the Hollywood Freeway. Lo and behold, a guy I sure think was Michael Landon of the Bonanza show was driving a new black 98!

And, in he late fifties, i needed another car. I went shopping and found a 55 Olds 98 Holiday coupe in cream over red. Yeah, not what I realy needed, but I bought it. A lot of get up and go with it's 324 CI V8 and four speed hydromatic. Cruised effortlessly on the frreway and a kick down got a spurt of power to pass. When I got an AC'd car, I traded it for a nice 52 Ford 250 trucxk with a flat head six and a granny four speed. A bonus was a small tear drop camper trailer that came with it.

And, on and on goes the list of cars and trucks that have been in our stable.

The Jaguar is about tops of them, though.

Carl

 

I think that was a Delta 88, actually. Might be wrong. As for the rascally Kennedys, well, let's not get started :-). I have sort of a love-hate thing with the Kennedy dynasty. Let's just say it's emblematic of the both very worst and and very best of wealth, power, and influence.





Back in the 70s when I got my first "real job" at a big Olds dealership there were still plenty of old-timers around. They all swore that the '55 Ninety-Eight was the best model *ever* made by Oldsmobile....and they were quite emphatic about it, too !

Cheers
DD