The stop-and-go pace had the slender 48-year-old divorced father muscling the Fairlane's large-diameter, thin-rimmed steering wheel and pressing his right leg into the brake pedal with noticeable force.
Controlling a highly coveted vintage sports car via a huge, thin-rimmed steering wheel was certainly one way to test one's depth of enthusiasm for the breed.
Her thin hands gripped the steering wheel.
I giggled each time I wrapped my hands around the thin, 17-inch-diameter steering wheel, which seemed roughly the size of a manhole cover.
He weighs forty-five kilos!" He hears himself screaming this at her in a thin breaking voice, and he feels the steering wheel vibrate in his frantic grip as the car swerves.
Driving Dave Whitman's '66, I held a pizza-size steering wheel with a breadstick-thin rim and double-clutched the unsynchronized transmission, a task more difficult than, say, limiting my Twitter messages to 140 characters.
If your car is equipped with tires that have predominantly thin tread lines, they will clog easily, making steering or getting traction difficult.
The steering wheel is elegant, with a hard, thin, leather-wrapped rim that has raised grips at the 4 and 8 o'clock positions, rather than the customary 2 and 10.
Built for racing, many cars "had tires that were almost as thin as bicycle tires, the brakes weren't great, the steering wasn't great, and these guys were going at speeds of 60 to 90 miles per hour".
Finger-light steering, although quick to respond, relayed little feel through the thin-rim wheel.
