60s 70s 80s aftermarket steering wheels .

[grumpy52]

Have you seen what people are asking for them now ?
I like many had two or three hanging in the garage back in the day .
Mountney ,Astrali or Motolita .
Most of my cars had one fitted so I had a collection of wheel bosses and several wheels all 13" and I had Flat ,semi dished and fully dished . I never went for the tiny 10" . A mate had a 10" on his Vauxhall clipped a kerb and broke his wrist !
I gave them away or dumped them in the end , now becoming collectable .

[generationx]

The choice for me (due to serial Ford ownership) was the leather RS 3- or 4-spoke. Had one in several different cars as new from Ford with a boss was generally less than a hundred quid, and they were just the right balance of chunky and diameter. Also getting horrifyingly expensive due, I'm sure, to the Ford Tax.

[lowdrag]

Try finding an original wheel for an E-type then. The later one is available as a repro, but the originals, for the early cars, were standard fitment until about December 1962 only and never reproduced. I paid £100 for mine about 20 years back and was glad to pay, so rare are they.

[aeropilot]

Only ever had one in my Mini back in 1980...the usual 3 spoke Mountney jobbie, purchased from Rippy's in Pinner.

Had an original Springalex on my Escort Twin Cam, and again on my Sunbeam-Lotus, but they were an aftermarket option from Ford on the Twinks/RS's and similar with the Sunbeam, as they were the wheels fitted to the 'works' rally cars of the time.

[S47]

Ha Ha - What about all the original Steering wheels you were replacing, [most got dumped in the bin] In my time I replaced Several Lotus - elan,7,cortina, a morgan, 66 mini cooper 's', sierra cossie, etc.etc they're all hanging up [from ceiling]in the attic[my man room] together with some replacement astrali,mountney, and motorola's which I purchased at Autojumbles it Looks great, the wallpaer is period car posters & old skiing lift maps my old Snow Ski's/Monoski's which are mounted on the walls, the few people to have seen the room seem impressed. Mother in law Gagged in shock/horror
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Wonder what original steering wheels sell for these days?

[grumpy52]

I suppose I have got blasè about them having not priced one for 30+ years . Only seen new woodrim Motalitas for jags recently.
I had a Cortina GT estate MKII back in the 80s that came with a woodrim wheel that I swapped for a leather Mountney .
What would the woodrim be worth these days ?
Like lots of stuff we dumped back then would we have hoarded it away if we had the space and a crystal.ball ?

[R6VED]

This got me thinking. I have a wooden MOMO steering wheel that I picked up a few years ago for my 1981 Mercedes 500 SEL.

I just checked Ebay and the exact same steering wheel is on there for £175. Some of the prices seem rather ambitious to say the least.

[steely dan]

I will be eternally sorry for not buying a woodrim wheel some years ago when I came across it in a second hand shop in Luton , priced at £8........I later identified it as being from an early Lotus Elite
I do have an early Motolita non riveted wheel that was owned by ,and then left to me,by a dear friend upon his passing along with a touching note hoping that it steered me to as many happy and memorable places as it did him.

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A marque forum that I use had a thread on it recently asking for advice as to buying a particular car . The photos showed a genuine , but non standard , embossed Nardi wood rim wheel fitted to it . he commented that if he bought the car the first thing he would remove and discard was the ugly wheel . When i pointed out what that ugly wheel was he bought the car ,removed the wheel , and sold it for a significant sum......