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Hello Mark. The wheel does look correct for a 1951 Inter, however, I believe it to have been re-wooded. The '51 Inter wheel should look like this...
Ed: That third one isn't original to the car, right? Was that a Ferrari issue? If so, I would think sometime in the seventies. woodrim
VERY nice SI , Coldwater. I had a SII FHC until about three years ago. woodrim
Ed: I should have also noted that they had an unusually thin rim and experience a great deal of flex, often developing cracks in the wood as a...
Yes, Ed, it does appear to be from an E-Type. The earliest ones were beech, but most were like yours, mahogany. All were made by Coventry Timber...
Yes, Boudewijn. That be it ! :-)
410SA: Nice wheels. Well, three of them. The first is Ferrari issue unsigned Nardi. The last one is the signature series aftermarket wheel, most...
Wow, lucky you. No rumor was started. I thought I saw you post it, but it must have been another person. I'll take the rim question offline....
Hello Randy. Thanks for the kind words. I had seen the name but thought - nah, can't be the same guy. Do you have a Ferrari too? I think I...
Sorry, I do not know much about leather rimmed wheels.
May I ask why a donor must be sacrificed? I can only imagine that it's for mold making, and if so, I would think the parts can be reassembled...
Can anyone tell me if there is commonality between steering shaft splining on Ferrari, Maserati, and Fiat? woodrim
Thanks, Warren, pictures would be good. In addition to the rim, a crisp image of any spoke will help me make some comparisons in tooling. As for...
Yes, it does appear that Momo supplied some wood wheels. The pictures provided earlier were very helpful and Mark was good enough to send me the...
Hello 1oldf. Your wheel is definitely a rarity. I see they did the blind riveting to the boss before making those three cut-outs. I'm not...
Hello Jacques. I'm afraid my expertise ends with the classic period wheels. However, I would imagine the finish on your wheel was a varnish or...
Yes, it's very likely they did when they discovered the plastic crap others were using. The ones I've restored were all wood inlays, although I'm...
Mark: Thanks very much for that picture, is very helpful. Although, since mirrors reverse images, isn't that really a OMOM wheel? ;-)...
Hello Dave. There were three main methods for building rims; ply laminate (plywood) as used by Derrington, segmented (many early Ferrari wheels),...
Hello Erich. The Tiger wheel was made from segments of mahogany. The inlay was real ebony wood; most likely gaboon. The Tiger wheels' inlay was...
