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First in a couple of quick catch-up posts about the Amazon's restoration.

Like much of the car, I'd hummed and hah'd over the steering wheel for quite a while, and had originally tended towards a leather one, possibly using the dark blue leather used elsewhere. In the end, however, I went for wood -- partly because I thought leather might look a bit "kit-car", partly because I like the feel of wood better, but mostly because I wood would look just that bit sharper.

The 14-inch Moto-lita wheel I chose (a walnut Mark 9) was flat rather than dished, and looks pretty damned good in the car.

Fitting was relatively easy, though Mark at Romance of Rust needed to scurf off a little of the boss and the indicator rod, and being a flat wheel, the indicator and overdrive stalks needed a little bending.

The only quibble is that the perfectionist in me is slightly unhappy with some visible joins in the wood at the back of the wheel. However, it's transformed the handling of the Amazon, and the rim is just the right diameter (some of the other wooden ones, including those by Moto-lita, seem a bit spindly, and leather ones are generally a bit fat).

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