c-1 58 steering column colour

[Susan G.]

Hi,

My 58 is a late May car. Is this considered late build? The judging manual says very late cars were painted with interior colour only a partial distance (as 59 and 60). Should a late May cars steering column be all painted interior colour or the partial which then changes to black. My interior colour is charcoal. Thanks for you help.

[Frank P.]

Re: c-1 58 steering column colour

Susan:

My car is first week of June and the column is interior color all the way forward to the steering gox.

[Jack H.]

Re: c-1 58 steering column colour

Susan, don't let the common terminology ('early' versus 'late') fool you. It's NOT a matter of exactly when a particular car was built. The issue relates to running changes in general.

Each change was authorized at a particular date in time and the terms early and late then relate to THAT specific change and when it took effect.

Sometimes early/late can apply to cars built in, say, the 3rd/4th month of production. Other times the terminology might apply to cars built before June versus cars built in July/August.

Bottom line, you have to take these issues one at a time, study and understand the specific running change in question. This is an issue MANY who are new to the sport/hobby struggle with wanting to classify their car early or late with regard to ALL changes. Unfortunately, that's not the way its works...