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Originally Posted by bigblockv6
Clint Eastwood drove what were labelled as 60's GMC's in a few movies: Every Which Way You can, Bridges of Madison County and a Perfect World. If you pay close enough attention to the dashboards on all these trucks you will see that none of them were GMC's. Actually Chevy's dressed up to look as GMC's so none were V6 powered. The one in Perfect world was a Red and white two tone with V6 badges on a Chevy hood and it had one of those Chevy passenger car styled steering wheels with an oblong horn button and ring that went half way around the steering wheel, definitely not GMC stuff. Actually this subject is nothing new, it has been brought up before.
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Hey bigblock, I am working on one of those steering wheels right now. Chevy offered the Custom package as an upgrade to the base truck. Part of that package was the nicer steering wheel with the chrome half ring horn button. It was borrowed from the base model Chevrolet cars from 1958-60. The fancier car wheel is the one with the V shaped center section with a series of holes, that are commonly known as Impala wheels. Later, Chevy trucks offered the 1965 Nova Steering wheel with the Custom package. I only wish they made a 15 inch version. They look great, but are pretty big at 17 inches. Later, GM