While you're at the junkyard, take a look at some of the Ford columns.
We found one in a Merc wagon, circa late 70's - early to mid 80's or so.
It was a very clean column, with tilt, turn signal and key.
No shifter on this one, but we've seen them with column shift.

The column ended up in a 1938 Morris 12 - similar to an Anglia which was a popular drag race car.

Saturday, I spotted two GM column shift columns at a garage sale complete with key, tilt and turn signal.
They struck me as being about 30 - 34" long overall including steering wheel that they were standing on.
I'm guessing mid-late 70's and maybe into the 80's.