Squarish Imperial steering wheel?

Which years of imperials had this? I've seen them in the recent
Automotive Quarterly and in the George Barris MM book-when did they
quit?

 

Sometime late 50's to very early 60's
Larry

 

The Chrysler nameplate had them too in the 300 and the New Yorker just
to name a couple. I think they were used until '63 or '64.

-Kirk Matheson

 

Squared-top-and-bottom steering wheel was available on big Mopars through
'63, think the first year was '59 or '60.

 

Circa 58/59 thru '63. All the full-size Chryslers could be had with
them- in fact I spent a good deal of saturday drooling all over the most
beautiful '60 300F Convertible I've ever seen at a car show and it drove
there a couple hundred miles under its own (prodigious) power. Hummana
hummana hummana!!!! What an INCREDIBLE automobile. Square wheel made of
clear plastic, "Astradome" dash with electroluminescent lettering and
everything. Woot.

 

Were they an extra cost option? Are they available as a repro today?

I am drawing-not building, drawing, for wallpaper-a scaled up Locost
(http://locostusa.com/) and one of these would be a spiffy addition! Of
course it has a Mopar engine-a Slant 6 with Webers.

Remember the XNR?

 

On some models and years, yes. Standard on the Imperials of relevant model
year, and possibly some high-end Chryslers as well.

Not to my knowledge, no, but there are steering wheel repair/restoration
services.

Yes.