Ray;
Are you going to sell the door trim from that one? If so how good are they and how much for them.
Every part on this car is for sale. I generally use 60-70% of Don’s catalog price on my stuff for friends. Send me a list of items you need. BTW, the dash stuff is beautiful on this car. It say buried under 3 inches of pine needles for decades.
Ray, I shot you an email.
I have been selling Cougar parts for 35+ years and have been a member here on CCC for over 5 years so I am not very hard to find.
Randy Goodling
CCOA #95
Randy, let me know what you find in your box.
This 70 Standard will be dismantled next week when my boy is on winter break. Thank for your patience -Ray Bischoff
When you get in there, send me some good pics of that steering wheel and let’s talk. Thanks!!!
Hey everyone, I’m STILL LOOKING for a 3 spoke rim blow steering wheel for a 70 Cougar! Please help me out.
This is a 70 XR7 three spoke wheel. I believe the center wood grain is specific to the XR7 and the wheel rim wood grain may be darker.
ACP is the manufacturer of the repro 1969 rim blow wheel that WCCC sells. I sent ACP
an email 2 days ago asking about the 1970 rim blow wheel. This was their response “We are in the process of manufacturing it but we don’t have an ETA.” Don’t know how long you can wait but looking at the pictures of the '69 wheel on WCCC, it is worth the wait!!.. unless you don’t have $600 for a new wheel.
This thread makes me really appreciate the nice one I plucked off of ebay for $50 two years ago. Gave it to a friend for his birthday.
rare70cat, If I knew it would be this year, I’d be willing to wait.
bmwhd1, super nice deal and nice gift.
I have a birthday in April if anyone wants to send me one!!!
I’m waiting. I contemplated buying a '69 repro wheel because I like the XR-7 medallion in the center, my car being a '70 XR-7. I’ll email back and see if the rep has a “questimate”.
Got an answer already! He says best guess is this October!
Rare70cat, I agree on the 69 wheel. I do think it’s a much better looking wheel than the 70.
RPS shows a 69 Rim Blow reproduction on their website…
Is it the same base wheel as the 70 3 spoke and could I just buy the pad and trim stuff and use it???
69 and 70 steering wheels are not the same. Center section is unique to the 69s. They do not fit on a 70-73 wheel. A 69 will bolt on to a 70(I think). But the 70 collum is bigger around Fort the locking feature. The back side of the 70 whe3l has the cogwheel that ingagess with the pin in the collum. I don’t think you will be happy with the look at the base of the wheel.
Have you considered a aftermarket wheel?
ACP makes all the '69 repro wheels just different vendors sell them. WCCC has better pics and their honest review. The 70 reman wood grain looks too wood grain and doesn’t have the texture/indentations in the wood grain. The 70 lower spoke is wider than the left/right horizontal spoke.
UPDATE: got back in touch with ACP. They had an issue with the first trial batch. The notch for the rim blow switch cover was cut a little too wide. They just got some of the corrected wheels for trial/inspection. He sent a picture but you couldn’t really see any detail. The rep said if all goes well 1970 rim blows will be available at the beginning of next year.