Re: alfa-digest V7 #1171

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Scott Fisher asked about TZ versus GTA original Steering wheels and I hope I 
can help with this. We have been finding and restoring old, original 
Hellebore wheels for both of these models for a couple of years. We've found 
that both of the models use the same exact steering wheel, detail for detail. 
The parts #'s in the two books are indeed different however causing me to 
wonder what exact difference was there. Only the prefix of the number changed 
for the model, the rest of the #'s are the same. We've placed three wheels in 
the U.S. in the last two years, two going to TZ owners and one to a GTA 
owner. All said the furnished wheels were exactly like the ones they had 
which were then in terrible shape. All of the wheels were the same. I looked 
in the TZ parts manual and the one they show has 4 holes in each spoke, just 
like the GTA. The GTA book does show an "alternative" steering wheel 
available though offers no additional information. I'd hazard a slightly 
educated guess that Scott has one of the alternative which were probably 
smaller in diameter and couldn't support 4 holes so had 3 in each spoke. Hope 
this helps!
Matt @ Re-Originals    O.E.M......all over again!

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