Starter button

Is anyone using a starter button? I'm thinking of redoing my ignition this summer (mounting the ignition under the dash) and installing a starter button, similar to the one one the Honda S2000s.
Ron

I am, I thought it was a little more authentic, and kinda cool. It works just fine, I have a key that just puts power through to the button, which completes the circuit to the starter. By the way I have an extra one for sale.


"The Vacaville Guy"

Picture?

These starter buttons, and starter button kits, re usually on ebay as well at pretty affordable prices.

Sounds like a great idea to me

Get a real honda S2000 one, the ones on ebay are horrible in quality most of the time. Advice from a curent S2000 owner.

This is what I installed in my speedster center console.

www.stylinconcepts.com/parts.cfm/partfamilyid/491/lc/pfst/key_word/starter

Let me know if you have questions.

Jerome

Gary, do you have a picture of your starter button? Jerome, thanks for the site...looks very nice.
Ron

Where was the starter button mounted on the 356?

Ron, I have to admit, they are cool lookin'. As far as authenticity goes however, Johnson's Resto Guide says: (Pg 98)..........Starter buttons were discontinued when the 356A gained a combination ignition / starter switch. This was at or very close to the 356 - 356A model change. ( I'm thinking late '55 ? )

Further reading allows me to answer your question more directly:
" Directly right of the steering wheel was the starter button on 356 Coupes and Cab's. On Speedsters it was above the ignition switch. With a few exceptions in very early cars ( which had black buttons ) starter button color matched the color of the other knobs and the steering wheel "

There's a picture of an "early Speedster" in Gordon Maltby's "Porsche 356 and RS Spyders" book (pg. 90) showing the dash (small central multi-gauge, big Speedo and Tach) with the ignition to the right of the gauge cluster, and a starter button just above it (about 1" apart). The chrome bezels are the same diameter - maybe 1"(?), and the starter button looks to be 5/8" in diameter. This cars' dash buttons are all ivory - so is the starter button. Looks like a big, ivory door bell button. Wish I had a flat-bed scanner so I could send along a picture.

gn

That is a nice illustration Gordon, I think that configuration of warning lights was discontinued at the end of the '55 model year run. Another change that came with the 356A was incorporating the warning lights into the guages...............and losing the starter button.