Factory 380 mm "Thick-Grip" Steering Wheel Dissected

[mike curnow]

I bid $300 on it with 4 seconds to go but it didn't take.

Jeez! I wonder who won it !? Thanks.

-Allen-

[fryardds]

Perhaps photos about a NOS thick grip Steering wheel help the discussion...

Interesting wheel Andrea. The hub shows the correct part # and the date code is '70 but the date on the box label is '96 and leather has much more grain than other NOS wheels I have seen. I am thinking it was covered much later than 1970. Maybe the originator of this thread can visit the secret parts lair and take some photos of the wheels there for comparison.

[Allen Henderson]

Usually, I have to put my RSR wheels in quotes like this "RSR" because while similar they are not the real McCoy. Not now! I've achieved perfection. Don't believe it, check it out. Too bad about the small wear spot, otherwise it is awfully nice. The date code is 4/72..could have been on a real RSR, in fact. Any ex-Highway Patrol or other gov't offical out there who can tell me whose California drivers license number "CAL V440228" (I think that's what it is, this is or was?) Happy Holidays...so continuing with the theme this thread started with.....thanks.

-Allen-

[advtracing]

wow, look at the curves ....the lines .... the steering wheel that is

[ChristianS]

Usually, I have to put my RSR wheels in quotes like this "RSR" because while similar they are not the real McCoy. Not now! I've achieved perfection. Don't believe it, check it out. Too bad about the small wear spot, otherwise it is awfully nice. The date code is 4/72..could have been on a real RSR, in fact. Any ex-Highway Patrol or other gov't offical out there who can tell me whose California drivers license number "CAL V440228" (I think that's what it is, this is or was?) Happy Holidays...so continuing with the theme this thread started with.....thanks.

-Allen-

Very nice wheel - it's the one that 'buffalobill' offered on the bird, right?

[Allen Henderson]

Very nice wheel - it's the one that 'buffalobill' offered on the bird, right?

No I don't think so. I'm not much on Pelican but I went over there and looked. This "buffalobill" is rather elusive as, for example, it looks like his "ad" post for a wheel has been modified and we can no longer see the wheel he had(has?) for sale; plus if you read the thread..well..I think I'm glad for sure it was not his wheel. And, btw, we don't know his real name. From what I can tell "Buffalo" is in Montana, my wheel came from sunny California. Thanks.

-Allen-

[Flat Six, inc.]

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The "3" looks overstamped...on a 4?...5?

[andrea70]

impossible to detect... i see only a bar near the up part of the "3" number...

Btw, Porsche in the ninetes used old cores for new steering wheel... it should be possible that the "803" cores were finished at time, so they restamped e.g. an "805" core.
it's a theory of course...

[Flat Six, inc.]

impossible to detect... i see only a bar near the up part of the "3" number...

Btw, Porsche in the ninetes used old cores for new steering wheel... it should be possible that the "803" cores where finished at time, so they restamped e.g. an "805" core.
it's a theory of course...

Yeah, was my point more or less...with Porsche, almost nothing surprises me...

[Cornpanzer]

I have a friend with four of these NOS in the boxes. They are all date stamped late 69. I snapped some pics of two of them.
Notice that on these, the leather termination at the spokes is just slightly past the end of the thumb pad. On the later '72 date coded "RSR" wheels, the leather terminates right at the end of the thumb pad. Not enough examples to prove anything conclusively, but there does appear to be a trend.