STOCK 67-72 Steering Wheels

[67ChevyRedneck]

I had a black 72 wheel on my truck since like 2006 that I took off of my grandpa's old 72 when it was parked for good. It had about 60K miles on it when I took it off (truck was a 72 C30 dump truck). The wheel held up really well. Around 4-5 years ago it started to develop some small cracks and I think the carolina sun finally got to it, because it reached a point where it developed huge cracks and pieces were falling off over a short period of time. I finally replaced it with a 67/68 repop wheel when I lost a chunk of skin on one of the cracks.

I agree the blue wheels were terrible. My family owned a ton of these trucks when I was growing up and even in NY's "milder" (not much sun) weather I still remember seeing some of the blue 69-72 wheels with dang near no plastic left even in the late 80's/90's. My thought had always been the different colored plastics deteriorated differently in UV light and blue was the worst? Plastics were relatively new back then. Anyone remember a lot of the 80's GM cars (especially the Caddies) where after 8-10+ years the plastic/rubber pieces between the body/bumpers and/or taillights/body just rotted away?