[DeTomaso] steering wheel wanted

David Skinner skinnerdskinner at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 12 15:36:52 EDT 2013


Yeah, I like the wood wheel on the Mangusta, looks real nice.  I opted for a wood one on my 71 k-5 blazer and it looks great.  Fabricating is way outside my realm of expertise so I'll just consider this a quest that I may never complete but I will never give up on.  Keeps things interesting right?


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 From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com 
Cc: skinnerdskinner at yahoo.com; detomaso at poca.com 
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] steering wheel wanted
 

I have never seen one before, interesting.

Since you are going retro, you might consider a Nardi wood rim as well, although I have never seen one as small as our cars use,
I have one in my 450SL instead of that giant POS that came in it.

The wheel that you want looks a little like the Grant wheels, perhaps you could fabricate something using one of those as a starting point.

Michael




On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:09 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:


>In a message dated 3/12/13 11 35 18, skinnerdskinner at yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>> Ok, one more question.  One more for today that is.  Does anyone know
>> where I can get that super hard to find steering wheel that only seems to show
>> up in dealer photos of the early pushbutton 71's?  Its got one band of
>> brushed steel across the middle and the Ghia emblem in the center.  I'm
>> guessing they're rare so I'm starting my search here.  I'm fairly certain
>> everyone knows which one I mean but I've got a small picture attached just in
>> case. 
>>
>
>>>>The forum software strips away all attachments, so nobody can get
>infected with a virus.   But I know exactly the wheel you're talking about.
>
>They are very, VERY rare.   In fact the early cars all came into the USA
>wearing that wheel, and they were summarily removed and replaced with a cheap
>Capri wheel by Ford, apparently due to crash standards or some other such
>nonsense?   Bev Hall told me a year ago or so, that Bill Stroppe had a pile of
>hundreds (HUNDREDS) of those wheels in his facility for years, and nobody
>wanted them.   The Halls took a handful for themselves, and all the rest
>eventually went to the dump!
>
>Now they are worth a ton of money.   Getting the wheel is only the
>start--you also need to get an appropriate hub, and a wheel center.   Larry Finch
>pieced together just such a setup recently, and offered it for sale.   I don't
>know if he sold it or not?
>
>I know many years ago, Hall had just a wheel for sale for $1500, but today,
>they won't sell one to you--the one they have they are keeping.
>
>The wheel was used on some other period Italian cars--the one that I know
>of is the very rare Lancia Fulvia 1.6 HF "Fanalone", but good luck finding
>one of THOSE to part out!
>
>Here's a photo:
>
>http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Lancia_Fulvia_16HF_interio
>r_EX.jpg
>
>Mike
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