IaM-Ray posted:@Marty Grzynkowicz what fuchs?
I like that car but not the rear vent I just would not want to Depend on it
The interior though is pretty cool .
Ray. That rear vent is most likely a removable panel, in order to gain access to the pulley for changing the belt(s). Henry accomplishes this by a rectangular cutout behind a fold down licence plate.
Damn, can’t wait to see it Lane. I really like the custom look, obviously.
Working on some steering wheel designs today. I’ll scan in the top contender(s) and post here.
Marty those are replicas ? Size?
Your new steering wheel is really nice and
Bob’s wheels are really awesome too
both areas I might upgrade in the future.
Can you believe how fast the driving seasons are flying by... 2020 makes your baby 8 years old
Ok, here are some rough designs. The trick will be getting Mike Lempert's aluminum cutters to program their water jet machines correctly. Anyway, these are some of the top contenders. The top one is mistakenly labelled '7' in the upper right. It's actually #8, and the current top contender.
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:
Ah the Empi copies.
Lane Anderson posted:Ok, here are some rough designs. The trick will be getting Mike Lempert's aluminum cutters to program their water jet machines correctly. Anyway, these are some of the top contenders. The top one is mistakenly labelled '7' in the upper right. It's actually #8, and the current top contender.
They look kinda cool, I guess if your bent out of shape you can feel at home.
More seriously having holes is a bit more genteel for a 50's car while the others are a bit more chunky. I like this one and it looks a bit like Bob's
Once I pick the pattern, the remaining questions are:
This is fun!
Bob's has the same Les Leston style drop spoke design that I had in my Speedster. The main difference there is that the two side spokes intersect the center just a bit lower than in the wheel you like.
I like the darker wood but what are you doing for the interior and the car with colours is important. Even the vents.
I would take colour samples of the paint, the leather and the carpet then choose the wood. It worked well for me.
Lane I have used this banjo wheel leather wrapped and polished a number of times , there area few different horn button sizes and configurations , it is stunning and reasonable in cost. https://www.ebay.com/itm/14-bi...p2057872.m2749.l2649
Alan, the object of the game for the Lanester Coupe is not cost saving 
IaM-Ray posted:Alan, the object of the game for the Lanester Coupe is not cost saving
Actually it is - to a point. 😬
Anyway, I’m going with oxblood leather and Oslo Blue paint, so a darker, perhaps a bit redish, wood is in order, I think.
This wheel is from a hudson but looks a lot like a Banjo P wheel with half ring. Benzai had the P one on his car.
I think the more slender the wheel and the spokes the more 50's Euro it will look.
Or an early 50's 4 spoke.
Momo Style Emory style build wheel, notice the 58 dash a la Greg in CA. @JMM (Michael) might be a choice for you.
Brazilian Rosewood
^^^THAT^^^
My steering wheel is made from Bubinga, or African Rosewood. It has a nice, darkish look to it. Also made by Mike Lempert.
IS that BobInga wood?
Terry Nuckels has called replica speedsters "paper dolls for middle-aged men" (or some such thing). He's right.
And when you drill down to the bottom of all the personal decisions we make deciding how to make our cars "just so", what each of us decide to use for a steering wheel is probably the most intensely personal decision any of us make specing our cars.
I don't care for any of Lane's choices, or really any of the suggestions any of us have made for him. But what I like doesn't matter even a tiny little bit. This is Lane's car, and what Lane chooses to stare at every time he's inside his car is Lane's decision. I'd no more suppose to know what's best for Lane than I would suppose to know who he should marry or what food he should like to eat.
Some choices can't be made by committee.
Very True Stan, in the end he decides fully and we accept that, but we, the list, like to spend his money
IaM-Ray posted:Very True Stan, in the end he decides fully and we accept that, but we, the list, like to spend his money
Of course you do, Ray. That's half the fun. And by the way, that's a Tucker, not a Hudson. 
I'm curious what wheel style Stan likes. Got any pics, El Presedente?
I don't think I can like Stan's comment above quite enough!
That being said, for a darker wood, check out some ribbon Mahogany, Lane. It might be what you're after. I built a bass guitar out of a 2" x 12" slab of it. I think it's a gorgeous hunk of wood. I built the guitar because a friend of mine at the time told me I couldn't build a guitar LOL! He didn't know me very well. I dood it!
I think Bob and me are just showing Lane the color of the wood. For an outlaw he can do many things. Even some cool leather.
If I were to ditch the wooden wheel, and get one for more spirited driving, I'd go with a MOMO leather wheel, in a smaller diameter. I actually have considered doing this.
https://www.ecosia.org/images?...%20steering%20wheels
You can't beat one of these for giving confidence on the track (or on the road). You just want to drive when you grab one of these wheels.
Marty Grzynkowicz posted:I think Bob and me are just showing Lane the color of the wood. For an outlaw he can do many things. Even some cool leather.
Agreed, Marty. The discussion got on about different woods, and that's all my post was. No committee gang up here...
Lane wood have to make up his own mind, wooden he? Or, he could ask his wife, and leather make up his mind. 
Very punny, Bob. 
Yep, I'm looking at darker woods this time, bubinga being one of them. One reason I like bubinga is that I like saying it. Bubinga! Bubinga!
Those wheels are pretty cool Bob. Oh yeah I see what you did there
Rummage around on this site. Here's a link to how I'd spend Lane's money. 
http://www.classicowheels.com/...-356BC-Early-911.htm
For me, Greg has a wheel lined up that I like a lot. Though as soon as the car gets here I'm engine turning the spokes myself.
And here's Mike Lempert's site. His are all pretty much custom made. I'm keeping the cost down by doing some of the work myself.
if i remember the lempert wheels are excellent, i think Marty ordered one and it was a LONG process...I got a wheel from MotoLita in England, custom made and shipped all the way to CA in 3-4 weeks
That one's pretty incredible, isn't it? I've used some of the design elements in a couple of the ones I sketched (see #4 in particular). It's just a bit too pre-war for my needs.
Stan Galat posted:I don't care for any of Lane's choices, or really any of the suggestions any of us have made for him. But what I like doesn't matter even a tiny little bit.
Some choices can't be made by committee.
Stan likes NONE of the choices Lane has depicted and NONE that have been suggested??
wtf dood?
I mean, yeah, that page of modern Momo contestants was pretty wrong for this application but...really? None?
I mean, yeah, that page of modern Momo contestants was pretty wrong for this application but...really? None?
I think Stan was thinking of something more manly, like a tiller:
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