'59 Plymouth Forum

55 survivor wrote:Thanks Ron;I will give D&D Automobilia a call,Johnstown Pa. would be a nice day trip,since I live in Erie Pa. Mark

Ask that vendor that if we get a couple more orders put together if it will be cheaper. I can send mine in too with yours and we may get a price break if he can do them all at once.

John Q.

55 survivor wrote:Thanks Ron;I will give D&D Automobilia a call,Johnstown Pa. would be a nice day trip,since I live in Erie Pa. Mark

Mark, you are coming to Carlisle this summer aren't you? You can make a stop in Johnstown when you are on your way to Carlisle It is about time to make hotel reservations, the official 59 Plymouth hotel is the Best Western in Mechanicsburg.....

Ron

John,

You can deliver your wheel when you drive to Carlisle too, meet Mark and make it a convoy to the fairgrounds.

Ron

I had two sport wheels done by Koch's in southern California, recast with clear ring and colored grips. The cost was $600 apiece, but would have been $650 with only one recast. This was aboout six months ago.

---John

I'll give him a call for a group rate just curious what the price will come in at.But what if I still have no horn ring?Can they get or remold that too? I'm probably thinking not.I would like to go to carlilse but the plymouth is a basket case right now.Could make a trip anyway,about 6hrs.Thanks Mark P.S. Mark E when you get time shoot me some pics.

big m wrote:I had two sport wheels done by Koch's in southern California, recast with clear ring and colored grips. The cost was $600 apiece, but would have been $650 with only one recast. This was aboout six months ago.

---John

Thanks John! I thought there was another place to get this done with, I need to get some of the Turquoise material for the center area to be recovered in. But Koch's sounds much more reasonable to use.


John Q.

NO! You cannot order a deluxe horn ring "re-cast" in urethane! interesting concept, though. And no, they do not supply horn rings...they only re-cast steering vintage wheels.
The horn ring is made of the mysterious pot-metal...I really dont know what potmetal is, but it must have been cheap and easy to cast. It does develop pits due to internal mis-match of ingredients, or so I've been told.
John Fowlie, thanks for supporting my memory that a re-cast steering wheel did not cost me $1500-2000!

John - If possible include me in this deal. I need my SF wheel recast.
Dick.

Dick Koch wrote:John - If possible include me in this deal. I need my SF wheel recast.
Dick.

Will do Dick, I just dug min out for look and a to take some pics of the parts of the inner horn ring area.

John Q.

Where are your pictures, JohnQ?

Roger, I did take them but the Bronco's were on and I had to wait till the game was over to get them downloaded and posted.


John Q.

Did the Broncos win?

Barely! 17-9 over the Chiefs.

here are the pics of my old wheel and a plated full horn ring.


John Q.

Mark, if you are still looking this might be the end of it http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-plymouth-h ... 8b&vxp=mtr

$80 is a fair price for this piece and Jeff is one of the good guys in parts land!

Ron

Ron; Thanks for hound dogging for me.Should have got to you sooner,i'm not the computer to much.I have found A very very nice standard wheel I am going with,although for $80.00 I grabbed it.Now I have A deluxe wheel complete needing A resto.I will hang on to it for now,probably sell later,at any rate that was A good price. Thanks Mark