Most all colums used in hotrods are from the 60's or, like idits colums, made to look like that of the 1960's era, most commenly, 1960's GM intermediat colums, the colums out of mid 70's - 90's cars, have like the ugly plastic top and bottom parts, the colum is a thin straight bar normally with a single joint in the middle beyond what you can see on the dash ( which is really just the plastic covers ), with the colums in most hotrods, are compleatly visible or in plain view from underneath the dash, i'd kind of look like somthing from a school bus ( as it's the same type of colum but, compleatly visible ).