Steering Wheel Location with non-adjusable column

[BoyRacer]

Where is the steering wheel in a 3000 with a non-adjustable column located in relation to one with an adjustable column? I know the adjustable column allows the steering wheel to get closer to the dash. But does it allow the wheel to extend further out than the non-adjustable wheel?

 

[Randy Forbes]

It has been a long time since I made a direct (back to back) comparison, but I believe the adjustable wheel only brings the wheel closer to the driver.

To get a little bit of knuckle space, a previous owner fitted a very slightly dished, smaller diameter Moto-Lita wheel.

 

[HealeyRick]

What a difference in driving positions to the Fiats that I owned. An orangutan could've been comfortable driving those cars.

 

[steveg]

What a difference in driving positions to the Fiats that I owned. An orangutan could've been comfortable driving those cars.

The Pininfarina Alfas were worse than the Bertones.

There was something in the late '40s with Nino Farina's relaxed arms-extended driving position that inspired generations of Italian designers.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

What a difference in driving positions to the Fiats that I owned. An orangutan could've been comfortable driving those cars.

One of the really stupid move was obtaining a FIATsco 600. Only car I ever had that I had to pay someone to haul to the scrap yard from the freeway.

Anyway, I recall an article in one of the mags...R&T, C&D or some such, where they reviewed a new FIAT and complained about the steering wheel position....top was too far away and all that. Until they went to Italy and watched them drive. They drive using the bottom of the wheel, or so the article said.

I've been to Italy, several times, Naples area, Sardinia, but it's been so long ago I don't recall anything other than thee was a FIAT repair garage on every other corner. Seriously.
72, 73, 74.

 

[HealeyRick]

Anyway, I recall an article in one of the mags...R&T, C&D or some such, where they reviewed a new FIAT and complained about the steering wheel position....top was too far away and all that. Until they went to Italy and watched them drive. They drive using the bottom of the wheel, or so the article said.

I remember that technique being called "shuffle steering" where the wheel is held at the bottom and is passed between the two hands, rather than the crossed arms that occur when using the 10 to 2 position. They used to remark the Fiat wheels were positioned like ones on a bus.

 

[DerekJ]

Even Ferrari’s are like that, with the wheel on a flattish plane rather than more upright, it makes the cockpit look a bit weird to me.