[Pecosbill]

By Jove, Andre, you're right! And I'm supposed to be the finance guy, too! $47 invested at 9% compounded semi-annually for 49 years is $3,511.51, about the price of the wheel. A good real estate deal would have turned more than that. However, it would still be cool.

[Dick Boneske]

I'm glad I bought mine in 1986 for $350. It hung on the wall in my shop until 2011 when I installed it in my '64.

In my experience, at car shows, the most-commented items on my '64 are the wood wheel and the Tripower.

[GTO JOHN]

Amazing thread. I have to agree with whoever said it is worth more in the box than on a car. Maybe this would be a nice item for the Pontiac museum...
I have no problems with asking for pricing advise, my friends and I do it all the time. Especially when a guy like Scott who normally deals with 68-69 stuff comes into such a rare 64 item like this. I have to admit the thought of the price approaching $4000 in an open auction was an eye opener for me. Cool piece!

[Scott Thelander]

Yes.....

I started off with poor judgement in my initial post with an unappropriate statement ......my bad(DumB)
Markxjunk got me back on track first........along with our moderator B-Man

2nd and just/almost as important , is, I want to do a BIG SHOUT OUT
to alex s ........ will all due respect he found the steering wheel also
advertised and talked to the seller .. He was told it was sold and owner was waitng for payment ... here is his post to me ....I had asked him why he passed on the purchase of the steering wheel ... was it no pictures available? or that it was listed as a 3 spoke 64 steering wheel... here is his reply...

Hi scott
Nothing turned me off except that it was sold when I contacted him . and he was waiting on payment . I was not going to offer more to get it , I did not think that would be a good thing . Let me know if you have a number on it . I am serious . I can also trade parts or cash . I have over 5000square feet of Pontiac parts used and NOS . Thanks for getting back to me
Alex


this is one stand up dude !!! KUDOs .... Im sure we all live this way in our private and public , thats why we are here on this forum ....
because this IS the way we all roll here ....

again thanks alex

thanks to b-man our moderator for all he (has done)does for us(me lately) here....

thanks to all who have posted .......

Wishing you all a Happy ,safe, Holiday !

and D B that red interior is smokin ....... and that wheel looks great also .....

lets see all the 64 interiors .... how about it !!

Good night

Scott

[richard sargent]

lets see all the 64 interiors .. quote

[Andre]

Originally Posted by Dick Boneske

I'm glad I bought mine in 1986 for $350. It hung on the wall in my shop until 2011 when I installed it in my '64.

In my experience, at car shows, the most-commented items on my '64 are the wood wheel and the Tripower.

Dick- You need these NOS red 64 seat belts that I have.....

[BOB VIDAN]

Andre, do you ever sleep?

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Pecosbill

Don, if we could do the "go back in time thing" I'd save my newspaper route money and buy as many of them as I could back in 64. I think it was a $47 option or somewhere in that area if I'm not mistaken.

$43.04, on a 1965.

K

[geeteeohguy]

I like Dick Boneske's interior. Can't for the life of me figure out how he shifts the car, or where the front clip of the car is, though. A special shiftless, shortened version?? Beautiful, in any case!!

[Andre]

Originally Posted by BOB VIDAN

Andre, do you ever sleep?

Bob- There will be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead. :-)

[rare4k]

I would not sell the wheel for less than 4,000.00 GO FIND ANOTHER !!!

[geeteeohguy]

Ram4King pretty much nailed it. The value of this wheel is NOS in the box. As soon as it gets pulled, installed on the car, and put in use, it's just another '64 wood wheel, albeit a very very nice one. For this wheel to hold its top value and bragging rights, it needs to stay in the box and sit on a shelf, unused.

[1966geeto]

I saw one on E Bay about a year ago was used no horn button in decent shape if I remember it went for 2,300 I watched it as I had never seen one before way out of my league but they sure are nice. This piece deserves to be on a car to be shown off like the diamond that it is to much stuff sitting in garages no one will ever see.

[bill ryder]

In 1990, I put one on my car out of the box. Today, even though the car has went only 3000 miles, the top of the horn button has 3 little pits that really jump out in the sun light. No way to save the emblem and have the button rechromed. But it doesn't need to set idle on a shelf either. It is what it is!!! "Bill"!

[NYGTO]

Originally Posted by Ram4king

Here's my take on it and have no horse in the race. I would love to own a wheel like this and I have some old corvette nos wood wheels too. But the problem is is that once out of the box on a car it's just another nice wheel that can be had for 1500 bucks. A parts boarder would love to have it in the box and that's where it should stay but what a waste not to use it on a car..also whenever somebody does come up with a nice repro which will eventually happen the price of these wheels will drop like flys....you gotta know.when to hold them and when to fold them I guess.

Well put, was thinking the very same thing. Once installed and used it becomes an excellent wheel (still a great addition of course).

This reminds me of the time I bought original Rallye I rims before the reproduction pieces came out almost 30 years ago.

[Tom Vaught]

When my original Wood Steering Wheel was stolen by some scum bags in 1976, a friend who searched the junk yards of Detroit found me a replacement from a 1964 2+2 Catalina. The wheel and cap was actually nicer than mine (after 12 years of use on my car). Not NOS but I will never argue with the $15.00 I paid for it.

Tom Vaught

ps I later found my 64 GTO wood wheel (with a special screw I had used in the horn assy) but the cops said without a driver's license number engraved in the wheel I could not prove it was mine. My new one was much nicer anyway.

Thanks for the pictures of a dealer NOS unit.

[Brad_bb]

I have an NOS wheel too. Actually I guess technically it's not NOS now because I've now mounted it on my unfinished car. I thought the $800 price tag in 1990 was crazy!

[marxjunk]

i bought 2 a few years ago on ebay for 240 and 330 used but nice wheels..they where listed wrong..both sellers said they came off a solid axle vette...then i started watchin and quite a few where listed as vette..must have been a common swap...

oh yeah..buyers figured out to look as listed for a vette....ive seen a few in the last couple years...but they bring real retail...

[John V.]

Originally Posted by Ram4king

Here's my take on it and have no horse in the race. I would love to own a wheel like this and I have some old corvette nos wood wheels too. But the problem is is that once out of the box on a car it's just another nice wheel that can be had for 1500 bucks. A parts boarder would love to have it in the box and that's where it should stay but what a waste not to use it on a car..also whenever somebody does come up with a nice repro which will eventually happen the price of these wheels will drop like flys....you gotta know.when to hold them and when to fold them I guess.

I also agree with this. On the right car, hard to imagine what it should sell for even if it would depreciate the value of the wheel once installed. Of course, the buyer could save the box and it would still be sold as NOS even if it exhibited more "shelf" wear a few years from now. Not saying that would be ethical, just reality. And I'm sure some would even swap out their very nice used wheel, put it in the same box and claim IT to be NOS. Buyer beware.

I bought mine about 20 years ago from a Chevy parts vendor at an indoor car show and swap meet in Chicago. Caught my eye amongst his Chevy stuff as I strolled by. Paid $300 and thought that was outrageous, yet a bargain compared to a couple I'd seen advertised back then for $600 and $800. Mine is very nice compared to most used ones I've looked at. But certainly not NOS new.

Keith, I think they were $39.27 as an option for the Lemans in '64 & '65.

$43.04 was for the Tilt Wheel.

The Lemans included the Deluxe Steering Wheel as standard content, so the factory option price was a "substitution" adder. I don't know what the price of the wheel as a Service Part would have been. Probably closer to $75. Might be interesting to know if anybody has a parts price list to check it.

[Pecosbill]

Wasn't there a guy on this board who was going to repro that wheel a while back? Whatever happened to that project?