68 Chevelle/Nova Steering Wheel

[68SS396]

Belair, I do not know what the SS 396 wheel emblem is for, but it is not for the Camaro. Joe and Belair, here is a pic of my unrestored survivor SS 396 Camaro wheel. It only has the SS emblem in the center.

[WILMASBOYL78]

That's the wheel I'm looking for!!!

Tom

[Tommy]

I failed to proof read my last post and it reads incorrectly because of my poor use of punctuation... The 68 Chevelles used the SS396 emblem. The 68 ChevyII and camaro used the SS only emblem. My wheel is identical to yours Bill, only not in such good shape.

Tommy

[Zman]

My 68 Chevelle has the SS only, and I'm 99.9% sure it is original. The wheel is junk, but the shroud is nice. It's a plain jane, no frills, bench seat 4 speed car if that matters...Don't remember the build date off hand, and I'm at work so I can't go look.

[GTO_DON]

my 68 is a 1 owner car and the wheel has ss396 on it..

[camarojoe]

I think the SS396 vs SS emblem is more of a production timeframe thing than a model thing. I don't think it matters if its a Camaro, Chevelle or Nova as much as WHEN the particular car was built. My guess is that early cars had the SS396 emblem, and was later changed to the SS emblem so ALL models could use the same one, including SS 350 cars.

[Supercar_Kid]

LV's Harrell Chevelle has the plain SS emblem and I think it's a safe bet to say it hasn't been touched, and the rust bucket '68 I posted pics of had the plain SS as well, and I can say for sure it's hasn't be touched. Both cars shared the rare UAW strike interior so I'd bet that the build dates of these two cars are within a week or two of one another. LV...what's the build date on your Chevelle? Let's look at known unrestored cars both before and after these dates, then maybe we'll come up with a time frame for the switch. I agree you'll probably find all later cars having SS only, as it makes more sense to switch to a generic "SS" for all Super Sport models than to have two separate parts for such a trivial application. Wonder if late production SS427 Impalas got the SS427 horn shroud emblem, or if that was done away with too and replaced with SS only?

[camarojoe]

Did they produce an "SS350" emblem for the 68 steering wheel? I have seen SS, SS396, and SS427, but can't recall for sure if I've ever seen SS350.

[SS427]

Kevin,
All original '68 SS427 Impalas that I have documented had the SS427 horn button unless they had the wood wheel. I have never seen an original Z24 car with the "SS" wheel. The only change I have seen has been with the side marker lights.