Thanks for sharing this. I also am restoring a Spider and have just done my steering wheel, but I cheated and had a wood shop fill in the cracks. Small tip on removing the old varnish - using a scrapper blade you can quickly thin down the varnish, then it will crack off when it is thin enough, without any damage to the wood. Keep up the good work
Thanks for sharing this! I am restoring a teak wood steering wheel from a 65 Corvette. It was not any where near as bad as yours but I learned some important things from your video.
This is the same steering wheel that my 1975 , 2000 GTV has. Mine has some cracks on the wood, but nowhere near as bad as this one. The steering wheel is made by HELLEBORE,a company that makes many other steering wheels for Alfa Romeo in the sixties and seventies. Excellent restoration, with a really good result of a very badly damaged steering wheel.
I have a '75 Spider with a rough looking wood steering wheel. This was very helpful.
Thanks for sharing this. I also am restoring a Spider and have just done my steering wheel, but I cheated and had a wood shop fill in the cracks. Small tip on removing the old varnish - using a scrapper blade you can quickly thin down the varnish, then it will crack off when it is thin enough, without any damage to the wood. Keep up the good work
Ambitious project - great rescue! I have just got an '82 Spider 2000 - fortunately only minor blemishes. Thanks for the very informative video.
Nice work
Fantastic! so well informed and so excited that beautiful steering wheel belongs to me!! Thank you for working so hard on this amazing restoration.
Thanks for sharing this! I am restoring a teak wood steering wheel from a 65 Corvette. It was not any where near as bad as yours but I learned some important things from your video.
This is the same steering wheel that my 1975 , 2000 GTV has. Mine has some cracks on the wood, but nowhere near as bad as this one. The steering wheel is made by HELLEBORE,a company that makes many other steering wheels for Alfa Romeo in the sixties and seventies. Excellent restoration, with a really good result of a very badly damaged steering wheel.
Thank you! It was one of my most enjoyable projects so far.
Finally a true walk through video
My friend...... You are an artist!!!!
Great job 👏
looks fantastic, I plan to do something similar (hopefully less work though) on my Ford Mustang steering wheel.
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing!
Really nice. Thank you for making this video.
Very nice, Thanks for sharing.
Profesional job
Thanks you - great job.
nice job
The horn buttons have white plastic grommets that snap-in.
nice work... are you on the alfa romeo bb? i think folks there would like to see this video
I have been checking it every now and then but never joined, I thought forums kinda died off.
kinda slow in the winter,, but picks up in early spring@@sloppyperfectionist5384
Hey I think I’ve seen you driving around somewhere, you live in Gwinnett right? I have an 86 spider as well
Cobb, but it’s been a while since I took her out.
what kind of wood is? mahogany?
Can’t tell for sure what it is originally but I used mahogany for all the fixing and it blended in fine.