compe steering wheel?

[FilipeA]

Hi

Expensive!!! Rarity!! Unique!!, these steering wheels are becoming more rare and hiting huge price, anyaway i think that one will not sell for that price, specially in this financial crisis.

Few months ago was one on Ebay for 650 /700 USD...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NISMO-10th-Anniversary-Competition-Steering-Wheel-240Z_W0QQitemZ160313521599QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item160313521599&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A64%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Filipe

[sblake01]

That's the 're-issue' steering wheel as Alan said. I'm sure that it wouldn't be worth as much as a genuine early one.

[jmark]

Price is nuts. One has been on Ebay @ $650 BIN and not sold.

[EVILC]

I don't see the big deal with theses wheels. Lots of other nice wheels out there!

[GatorJ]

It's mine and I have significantly over $650 in it. If it doesn't sell in a time or two, I'll just store in and try again next year.

[EVILC]

It's mine and I have significantly over $650 in it. If it doesn't sell in a time or two, I'll just store in and try again next year.

Hope you get what you want for it.....everything sells with time.

[Babalouie]

Wow...I had no idea these things were so valuable.

Is there any way of telling between the original Sports Option items from the 70s and the Nismo reissue ones?

[HS30-H]

Sorry for my late reply to this. I forgot all about it.

Is there any way of telling between the original Sports Option items from the 70s and the Nismo reissue ones?

You should be able to see the dated quality control stamp ( 'hanko' or 'ken' ) on one of the originals. It's on the gold passivate coloured part of the mechanism that you can't see when the wheel is in situ. They were made by 'Izumi' - the same company that made the original steering wheels for the cars - so the dated stamp is in the same place as you see it on the stock S30 steering wheels.

Actually, I'll have to look at my NISMO 10th Anniversary reissue and see if it too has a dated stamp. I can't recall off the top of my head whether it did or not......

But anyway, I think a genuine early wheel that has 'had a life' will certainly show some patina. They go smooth and shiny with use, whilst sweat and strong sunlight attacks the soft urethane. In extreme cases they shrink and crack. A 10th Anniversary reissue is already fairly old, but it would have to have led a hard life to show the kind of patina that an original would get from even normal use.

[Babalouie]

By the sounds of it, mine might be a reissue then

The urethane is a little shiny and smooth all over but in reasonably good nick.

Although you can see that at one point the rim had a texture to it.

The top of the rim has a little crazing from the sun, but quite faint.

Didn't spot any markings on the back

Or the plated bit behind the hornpad

Are these things that rare? I know there were only 1000 reissues, but since every second car in Japanese classic car mags seem to have a Compe I assume the 70s versions must have been made in significant numbers?

[alhbln]

I have installed a nice vintage compe wheel in my '72 240Z and noticed that the indicator stalk (left) now touches the steering wheel. Have there been different indicator stalks depending on the wheels? I guess that i can carefully bent the indicator stalk to create some distance to the steering wheel, but wonder how this was handled back then.

[HS30-H]

The 'Datsun Compe' steering wheels were of course based on the Japanese market steering wheels - which had a different 'dish' compared to the Export versions. The Japanese market turn signal switches had a different angle on them to cope with the different dish of the steering wheels.

Just gently bend your turn signal switch stalk to suit.

[preith]

How is the aforementioned Works car coming along? Any more recent pics? I'd love to see some!