Steering wheel color 67' velvet green westy ?

[iamdonquixote]

I seem to remember seeing both white and black. White or black?

[BarryL]

Just my opinion and observation not from facts; all the original '67 Westy's I've seen where white wheel with plain black horn push.

[Eric&Barb]

[srfndoc]

[iamdonquixote]

[BarryL]

Mine has an m-code that denoted it would be sent to Westfalia. I think when they got that m-code the white stuff went on and replaced the black stuff as well as paint inside here and there and other metal bits. Other Than Westys went to the camper shops in black controls.

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[Eric&Barb]

Well our MAR62 SO-34 has white steering wheel and column.
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[curtis4085]

I believe it's silver white with a black button. Must remember they started out as a kombi
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[Clara]

Jake's low hinge 61 SO-23 has a black wheel:
This is normal for SO-23 and earlier Westies

My April 61 SO-34 has white wheel/ column/ ebrake handle. I took this pic when Adam owned it and first brought it to a show in 2006.
In this pic it has wrong color ashtray and horn button. I think they were missing when Adam got the bus so he installed what he had handy.

The clock and gas gauge were additions a long time ago, not factory.

I think the change when Westys got white wheel/columns/e brake handle / shifter was probably when they started the SO-34 in mid 1961.
The outer ring of the horn button would match the wheel. But it is easy for horn buttons to get swapped around.

A normal kombi would have a black wheel, with black on black horn button. This is a 66, so white knobs.

66 so-42: has ivory shift knob, original was grey/white

67 SO-42 It has the black 67 & later dash knobs:

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[64 ragtop volks]

my 1964 velvet green so33 has a black steering wheel

[iamdonquixote]

so did Westfalia remove the black steering wheels and replace them with white?

[Col_Forbin]

thanks, I have been wondering bout this as well. so mine appears to be 'correct' minus the turn signal housing (currently black).. was the steering lock an option or come with?

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[Erik G]

steering lock was optional for US, but standard for euro delivery. if yous was a tourist delivery, it would have the lock
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[srfndoc]

I'm thinking that since they were mcoded as a Westy headed for Weidenbruck, VW kitted them that way even though they were Kombi's.
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[64 ragtop volks]

i got several boxes of parts, the white e brake handle was in one of the boxes, and was not installed when i bought the bus. half my friends say the steering wheel/column should be white, and other half say i have wrong e brake handle. go figure...

[Col_Forbin]