Well, I've finally done something for the '56 I've been wanting to do since last year. I had picked up this steering wheel last fall and knew it would be killer in the Oval but I had to figure out what it was and how to adapt it. Since I do CAD work and some machining work, I figured I'd knock this out. Several revisions of the design I finally got what I wanted and made the part. Since I just finished it up here at work I don't have the pic of it mounted to the wheel and in the car yet but I'll have that posted before the end of the weekend. Thanks to some help here at the forum I found that the wheel is Fiat and somewhat rare. The only other one I've seen is in the KDFMangler which was cool to see as well.
This is the wheel. Nice, vintage and race looking.
This is the adapter I made and it is basically to act as an intermediate adapter. My '56 had a Superior style wheel on it so I just robbed the adapter from that and mounted that to my intermediate which all together should look pretty cool. We'll see. Here is the adapter with the VW adapter mounted to it.