Digging through a couple of books here....
the wheel/column I received is from a late model 77
limited run from chassis 100020 to 105734
. ...found a pic of the wheel style and references to
the styling vs chassis/model series.
the moto-lita wheel came in, in '78
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gosling" <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>
To: "'ptegler@cablespeed'" <ptegler@cablespeed.com>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: photos of the differences in dates on SCCA dash plaques
> Paul,
>
> My (UK, if that makes a difference) '78 1500 has what I think was the
> Moto-Lita wheel - leather rim, shiny metal spokes, but in the centre a
hard
> plastic disk with an 'L' Leyland logo in the middle - no horn push, being
a
> '78 the horn is on the column stalk. Is this what you are talking about?
> Let me know if you get a photo and I'll confirm if it's the same as mine.
>
> I've actually now fitted a Mountney wheel, as the leather was worn through
> on the original, but the black plastic disk fortunately fits the Mountney
> wheel too, so that's still fitted.
>
> Richard
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