[DeTomaso] steering wheel wanted

[Mikael]

I believe Kristian/Push1267's car has one installed.

Mikael
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Fra: michael at michaelshortt.com [mailto:michaelsavga at gmail.com] 
Sendt: 12. marts 2013 20:26
Til: MikeLDrew at aol.com
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Emne: 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_i
> nterio
> r_EX.jpg
>
> Mike
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