Thread: Tilt-tele steering column?

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I'm planning to use a tilt steering column from a Chevrolet van or similar.
From what I've heard Cadillac steering columns very often have both tilt and tele function.

Why are not tilt-tele Cadillac steering columns from, let's say the early 70 to mid 90, much used on hot rod's?

Are they ugly compared to the round, relatively thin Chevrolet column?

Other reasons why they're not used?

Most all colums used in hotrods are from the 60's or, like idits colums, made to look like that of the 1960's era, most commenly, 1960's GM intermediat colums, the colums out of mid 70's - 90's cars, have like the ugly plastic top and bottom parts, the colum is a thin straight bar normally with a single joint in the middle beyond what you can see on the dash ( which is really just the plastic covers ), with the colums in most hotrods, are compleatly visible or in plain view from underneath the dash, i'd kind of look like somthing from a school bus ( as it's the same type of colum but, compleatly visible ).

Thanks for the answer Matt!

The tilt steering columns on 80's van's and similar don't look ugly to me. They were still slim and round. No outstanding plastic squares like we see on todays cars.

There are many differents between the hot rod culture's homeland US, and in Norway where I live, of course.
But here we use very much steering columns from 80's US vans's and US cars.

But let me ask in another way: Are there some obvious things that makes an 80's Cadillac tilt-tele column unsuitable in a hot rod compared to a 80's Chevy van tilt column?

(Since I'll use an 6-speed manual trans, the shifter handle will be removed from the column anyway.)

They are longer from the dash out. So it depends on your size and the size of your car. If it all fits then u have a winner.

so far all those tele steering columns i've seen in caddys have all been pushed in all the way any way. if you telescope them out you would have to move you seat back and then you cant reach your pedals

for my chevy i used a tilt column out of a 76 chevy van, it's slick and simple like idiots, no key on it and a simple cruise button with no plastic.

Besides what Ives Bradley and 53 Chevy5 siad about the legnth which is correct, another donner car for the tilt/telescope are the mid 70 full size Chryslers. Chrysler actually used a GM column as an option in these cars.