Oops, my mistake. The shape was called
the super-ellipse, not the semi-ellipse.
Tony B.
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Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 60 Plymouth
steering wheel needed
Hi Jim,
No, as usual your English
is just fine. The 60’s steering wheels were a sort of squared off
circle. Are you familiar with the semi-ellipse, a geometric shape created
in the late 50s/early 60s by a Danish engineer named Piet Hein? It was
used in a lot of designs at the time, from plates to ashtrays. I
don’t know if it was an influence on Chrysler’s steering wheels,
but they bear more than a casual resemblance.
Tony Boatman
Boise, Idaho
57 Dodge D500
69 Barracuda convertible
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 60 Plymouth
steering wheel needed
A SQUARE
wheel ???
Is it my
poor English, or am I missing something?
Jim
Hoekendijk
’57
Dodge D500, with ROUND wheels
The
Netherlands.
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Onderwerp: [FWDLK] 60 Plymouth
steering wheel needed
Should
anybody have a lead as to the whereabouts of a forsale square wheel for the 60
Plymouth, I should be pleased to hear of it. Thanks
Larry Jett PO
Box 465 Newark, CA 94560
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