Steering wheel- Lempert Wheels -question.

Mike made my wheel. He's a close friend of Lane Anderson. 

He also made one for Dave Mitchell.

Mine is a 15" tri spoke, flat dished Nardi hubbed wheel in rosewood with four holes in each spoke. Photos are in my file.

It's a nice wheel and priced reasonably, especially considering it was a custom design. Mike was great at the beginning of the process with excellent communication. However, that dropped off and I waited over two years to get my wheel. In all fairness, Mike had some health problems and production issues along the way which, I'm sure, added to the delay. Thanks to Lane I finally received my wheel and am very happy with the look of it. I think the style fits the car far better than the Nardi that a large number of Speedsters have. The 21mm thickness of the wheel takes some getting used to, especially during spirited driving. Gloves help.

Please feel free to dialog me for my phone number if you'd like more info/photos.

Yep, Mike had a serious drop-off in production for a while but now has a couple of helpers that have speeded things up considerably.  He and I worked on my wheel together along with matching door tops.  I like the drop spoke design as it doesn't cover the gauges like the Nardi I had originally.

I have a Mike Lempert steering wheel just like the one Lane has on the Beck I just purchased, great quality and great looking in my opinion. Since the wheel is not dished, I am curious how much clearance you will have between the wheel and turn signals. I found a 1 1/2" Billet spacer that may give me the additional clearance. Your ISP hub looks really nice and something for me to investigate.  Did you get yours at ISP West?

Gary

That would probably help you situation as would the hub adapter that I mentioned in our dialogs.  The thing shown above looks better, though.  

In my car I stacked the 1" aluminum spacer from Carey on top of the black accordion style hub adapter, which moved the wheel closer to me.  I initially had it without the spacer and it was a bit of a reach since I had Carey move the seat back an inch further than normal.

Hello,

Mike is building me a new wheel now. I'm supposed to have it at the end of the month. At that point it will be a 6 week turn around from deposit to delivery. I'm not 100% confident that I'll receive it at that time, but so far so good.

I will need a 5 hole to 6 hole adapter OR I will need a completely new hub.

Lane - if you have any suggested hubs that will fit my 67 bug spline, Please feel free to share.

Ted

Contact Carey Hines at Special Edition.  He should be able to tell you whether or not the one he used on my car will fit yours.

Will do!

Thanks,
Ted

Million thanks Guys!

I ordered the wheel this morning. 

Terry, will give you a call about the spacer/wheel combo (just in case i end up needing one).  As in my math i had not originally accounted for the 1' of dish that is typical of standard Nardis...

Cheers

Mike is awesome -- he made me a Gabon ebony VDM GT -- I was going to use it in my 356A Carrera GT before I decided to go with an original VDM GT.

Great product. I think I'm going to sell it -- or put it on my wall in my garage!

Beautiful wheel.

did he also make the ring to fit the large P horn button?  Very very nice!

Thanks! The horn ring was made by Classico Wheels (Jeff Fellman). 

Arajani - I vote for display that wheel on your garage wall! 

Jim: you are a smart man! That's what Teby told me to do too. The wheel should be at my doorstep soon (it was in Carey Hines' shop with all of my other parts). Gonna put it on my '65 356c while the original wheel gets restored.

A photo of my garage just made it on to the PCA "Porsche of the month" page. Check it out!

http://web.pca.org/index.cfm?event=potm.potmArticle

Cheers,

Anand

^ That Teby is a smart guy!! 

…and your garage is deservedly showcased in the magazine! Pretty dang nice!

Anand's garage is pretty amazing.  You have to take your shoes off when you walk in.  In my garage, you have to put on a hazmat suit when you enter!  

Mine is pretty much like Troy's. I'm sure Cal OSHA would red flag it with just one look.

Ted

My garage is also a hazard zone, but remodels can go a bit on the cazy side. 

Attached some pictures of my brothers garage in Bellevue.  2brm, 3.5 bath home, with space for 16 cars and a full shop.  House is up for sale... got married last year, has brand new twins, and wife not digging the wasted garage space as she reffers to it.  He didn't think of getting married and kids when he built the house. ;-)

that white box around his wifes mercedes is the elevator to get the cars from the main garage/house to the work shop downstairs.

A little over the top for my taste, but family is family.

pictures not attachng... im hotel living in PMI, and thie hotel always gives me internet problems.  Will try again later from the diff location.

this was writen up after the first open house to the local car club guys this summer.  they include a couple pics --  http://jalopnik.com/this-4m-ga...ice-house-1627603635

cheers

I sent that link to my wife with a note that says "we are a modest couple, in terms of garage-to-house ratio."