Thanks Henry, of course you are right. Only thing is, right now, I don't have any seats. From what little I have done in terms of interior mockups, it appears that to get comfortable I may have to dispense entirely with the seatback, and glue in some 2 or maximum 3" thick foam and create a "molded" seat back like you see in the old T-buckets, in order to get the leg room I want. This car is not channeled, so I can use a conventional height seat base, without having my head stuck up over the top of the windshield. I may be going about things bass ackwards here, but I can't start a bunch of burning and welding in the cockpit area to install column and hanger after the seats are upholstered and installed. One thing about G.M. columns---while they are a bugger to stretch longer, they are pretty easy to shorten up at the non steering wheel end. If they are a bit short, you can add a spacer between the hub and steering wheel or use a deep dished wheel. I am kind of dealing in generalities here, and my aim is to install a column that is "close" to being correct. I will not finish the column hanger untill I do get some seating figured out, and will not weld anything solid at the floor untill I have a column angle that works for me..