Official Metal Flake Steering Wheel Pic and ID Thread...

Awwww! I was looking forward to seeing this one. One of my favorite colors! Get a pic that works!

 

I am looking for a Blue flake wheel for the Project '42, anyone?

 

Drooooool!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Is this what you were thinking, Tim?

 

Great Caped Crusaders! Exactly like the '42 had back in the day! Brandon, you are the man! Will PM you......

 

Has anybody got a purple metalflake 15" 3.5" dish for sale??

 

i need a blue flake wheel, a nice one for a show car

 

you guys got some sick collections

 

Early finger grip NOS Grant in copper, the flake on these is pretty intense compared to newer ones...

 

I dunna what brand any of them are, they are all vintage and cool, none of them have any names on em at all, the blue metal flake one had bumps on the back, the others are all smooth.

JEFF

 

I don't know what you mean by "new ones missing the mark".....I used to put them on my cars in the 60's, so I bought this one last year, and I think it's fabulous....I really don't see a difference except this one's new, and I like that....

 

Grant:

 

Another Grant:

 

And another:

 

And one more Grant..........these all have the finger grips on them:

 

Large Grant five hole W/fingertip grips:

 

Cragar, the color on this one is hard to describe...........kind of a cross between silver & gold:

 

Ansen:

 

One more Ansen:

 

Superior Products here in Van Nuys, CA is no more. They stopped making steering wheels and other stuff many years ago but they have been making aluminum wheels for OEM's for quite a while now. Another victim of the economy.

http://www.foundrymag.com/frontpage/news/83574/superior_industries_closing_california_wheel_plant_

 

The larger one is a 15" i picked up at a a swap meet (supposed to be a Moon Eyes. It's never been installed.) to go on my '56 Chevy. The small one is a 12" Superior that i pulled off of a dune buggy i had years ago.

 

There's one one e-bay. Seems a little pricey. Or are they selling for that price?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/gree...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

And a red one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RED-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

 

hhhmmmmn... .looks familiar .....




you better put that on something!!!!!


btw anyone have any info on the grant wheels? rare? what is the rarest wheel?

 

Nice! The Grant's seem to have the most intense flake than any of the others, new or old.

 

I would say the Cragar wheels are the ones I see the least. I have the two pictured in this thread and a black one in my Comet.

 

I didn't even know craqer made steering wheels till this thread.

 

Its Great to see others that are collectors of Metalflake Steering Wheels. I have a picture of me and my wheels laid out on the driveway in a Nov 1999 Custom Rodder Issue page 10. At one time I had 71 Steering Wheels now only 36. I have several in the basement and most of them are on the garage wall.I have a Covico NOS Red flake Wheel on my 64 Chevy Wagon and a Grant Gold Flake one on my 59 EL. I too have an Ansen Turquoise NOS and 2 Covico(NO OFFSET) Silver NOS and others including a blue Grant finger grip,None of mine are For Sale. I met this guy last fall at a car show and he saw my Red Flake wheel on my wagon and told me about this Green Flake wheel that he had on a car from the 60's. In December he stopped over and gave me the Green one. I aso have an 8 inch(Yes 8 INCH) Chain Steering wheel I bought from a friend who had it on his cousin's lowrider in the early 70's.

 

PasoJohn you Devil!!! Nice Collection!!!

 

Last summer, I heard that the company that was repopping these wheels either went out of business, burnt or something and these wheels were going to become hard to get.

Anyone else heard this?

 

I got my ecklers catalog yesterday and they have some flake wheels for sale. They are only 11 1/2" though.