horn button

Jeez Oliver,

With your creative insight and demonstrated fabrication skills you should be able to replicate one!

I'll bet that Mango can point you in the right direction.

I got mine one eBay, was $107.00 with shipping, I think. Looks like there are a few listed at the moment.

You might try Stoddards:

http://www.stoddard.com/644-34...-01-horn-button.html

Ouch $396! - find someone with a lath and make one out of aluminum with a Porsche alloy wheel cap in center.

They sell the hubcap crest for $29.00.

Wolfgang & BobG,

You two nailed it!!!

After I replied to Oliver I noticed the Porsche crest on my nipple hubcaps...Jeez, I thought...that might work... JB Weld glued to the bottom of a DelMonte lima bean can.

Chicken Of The Sea tuna can might also work

yup.  i used a hub cap logo on mine.  fits my 'oval' wheel perfectly and looks totally authentic.  was only $25 IIRC.

 The one I got at Stoddard's did not cost that . They could have kept it.

The only ones available through reputable sources are licensed through Porsche now. That's why the price difference of a few hundred bucks. I've been looking at Derrington replica steering wheels and have only been able to find the $369 plus tax Porsche logo horn buttons at Stoddard.

Oli:

Sierra Madre has the hubcap crest for under $30 US - 

http://www.sierramadrecollecti...uct_detail&p=381

I bought a $17 key fob (one with the leather shape of the crest), removed the logo and epoxied it to the Momo horn button on my 911. It may be too small for your likes or purposes, but it's food for thought.

this is the first time i have found sierra madre to be cheaper...

http://www.stoddard.com/356-1/...ed-hubcap-crest.html

Oliver,

Jump on Sierra Madre before their marketing/pricing people get wind of this!

I made my own, Printed out a Porsche Crest then used a clear epoxy that I picked up at a local plastic shop, then glued it to my "Grant" wooded wheel.

thanks for all the ideas guys ! loads of help  sorted it got it all from My mates from Sierra Madre 

Yeah, I watched this thread and thought that I should "upgrade" from the big "M" on my Momo wheel but didn't want to go the Porsche horn button route.  The wife and I have wedding rings made of Celtic knots so I'm thinking a Celtic Knot horn button would be different.  On the lookout for a skirt pin or something just the right size.........   Stay tuned.

OK, so this may not be for everyone, and it will raise eyebrows amongst the Porsche snobs, but, Hey!  It's MY car and its a REPLICA so I can do whatever I want.   My wife and I are Celtic and she gave me this skirt pin just for Pearl, so here you go....the Celtic skirt pin horn button and it just happened to be the perfect size.  

Oh.....and after epoxying it on, the horn still works - always a good thing.

Terrific. Great tribute to your heritage and to your relationship. Good for you!

Jeez Gordon...I thought all you Celtic Viking types were six foot four with flaming red hair.

What, you never heard of Leprechauns?? 

No, the Scandinavians were "Nordic" - BIG guys, ate sardines, sailed dragon-headed boats with oars (is that how you spell that profession?), swung big axes, dressed in skirts, all that stuff.

Celts, OTOH, came from Scotland and/or Ireland (what the heck, they're close, and those old buggers could swim like the dickens), were somewhat shorter, ate Herring, sweated more (with an interesting, accompanying, fishy odor), swung big hammers, also dressed in skirts and many of them had red hair, rather than Nordic Blonde.  They also have the reputation of saving Christianity by smuggling books out of the libraries and monasteries of continental Europe and copying them, by hand, during the Dark Ages (when book burning became the fiery rage in Europe) and then brought those copied books back to the continent after the Dark Ages to jump-start the Renaissance by starting monasteries all over Europe.    But that's another whole thread........ 

Well, Gordon, I think we're on the cusp of another Dark Age, so I hope you people are making lists of what books, videos & CD's to go underground with until the dawn of rational 'Enlightenment' returns.

Re. the horn button - I like it!

Yeah, it came out kinda nice!!  I was on the fence about that particular medallion until I realized that the central stone is the same color as my wife's eyes.  That clinched it.  And the fact that it was a perfect fit for the button face (even convex shaped like the Momo button) couldn't have been better.  It's silver (really) so I'll have to polish it now and then, but that should be easy.

Sometimes you kinda luck out, and Kathy's really happy to contribute to Pearl's being pretty!

Now I can't wait to see how Ollie's comes out!

Gordon, sorry I didn't check this out in May at Carlisle...it's really great! Thank God it's not a "mood-button"...or maybe it is?

Gordon, it's fascinating that your ancestors dressed in skirts, smelled funny, and managed to unwittingly save Western civilization, but did they mention anything else about the design on your horn button?

Somehow, I can't stop staring at it. And worse, the room is starting to spin, my eyelids are growing heavy, and I'm getting sleepy....sleepy.....very....sleepy....

Snap out of it, Mitch!

Where's your car, dude?

Car? Oh, right, the car that was supposedly mine, all mine, three weeks ago.

Since then, I've spent two days in 105-degree heat driving 800 miles up and down I-5 to take delivery, overnighted on the Queen Mary, and listened to a variety of amusing stories about why the car still isn't in my driveway.

Suffice it to say that, in its heyday, the Queen Mary could have gotten the Speedster from LA to Sacramento quicker than the Lickety Split Trucking Service enlisted to do the job.

Latest word is Monday, fer sure.

By the way, did I do anything embarrassing in public after I looked at Gordon's horn button?

That's our little secret.

Sorted form Sierra Madre in just five days  banjo horn button with hub cap crest  & only £ 80  great service as always