Re: [alfa] steering boxes in GTVs, Berlinas

["Gwynne W. Spencer" <gwynnes1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

DOT Standard No. 203 is listed under a date in 1971, but I saw a document 
while searching the web that listed a date in 1968.  That may account for 
the switch on the spiders to a dished wheel in 1969 ??

Gwynne Spencer


At 05:05 PM 6/1/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>I think the U-joint steering box was phased in on Berlinas, and probably
>GTVs too, over a long period.  I don't think it was purely from 1974
>legislation.  The earliest Berlina I know of with the non-solid, U-joint
>steering shaft, is my old car, AR*3001046*, a 1973 MY car built in 10/72.  I
>have a lot of UJ cars on my list starting around that month. Conversely,
>AR*3002172*, a 1974 MY car with rubber bumpers, built 10/73, had a solid,
>non-UJ steering shaft, which I replaced.  Granted, it could have been
>replaced at some earlier time, but I doubt it, given that the person I
>bought it from knew its history from new.
>
>My 74 GTV built 4/74 has a UJ shaft.  Did Spiders go through the same
>transition?
>
>All US Spiders, GTV, Berlinas from 1969 on have dished steering wheels
>(until much later Spiders), so I don't think that in itself is a substitute,
>from a safety regs perspective, for a collapsible steering column.
>
>Andrew Watry
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