At 09:19 AM 10/16/02 +0100, Richard Gosling wrote: >Mike said: > >...Nice one; this is hard to come by. It was fitted for a very short >period of time to late '77 and early '78 cars. It took me the best part of >a year to find one to replace the awful Mountney thing the DPO had fitted to >my car... > >and Laura said: > >...Yes, this is the wheel the that Nigel (Feb. 1978) has-and I've never been >to a show yet when someone hasn't tried to buy it from me!... > >Well, it seems that I have done the opposite to Mike - my wheel was so >shoddy that I replaced it with a Mountney, and have been entirely happy with >it for several years now. Then again, I'm not such a stickler for >originality as Mike, who to a few people may appear a little obsessive... ;) > >However, if this is such a desirable item to some, I'm very happy to part >with mine. If you can get the rim re-covered with new leather, a little >polish on the spokes and it will look fine. E-mail me and its yours for a >nominal fee plus postage. > > >Richard
For the new leather, www.wheelskins.com will make a new leather restitching kit to actually fit the wheel! And as to the spokes, I took mine to a metal polisher and had the "grey" paint polished off because underneath are silver, shiny spokes! Laura G. and "Nigel" /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
