Stratos Original / Replica Steering Wheel

**Spartan** · 07-03-2015, 08:09

1% ?

I think prototipo is right though and here the combination of the wheel with engraved "Ferrero" signature (rather than stamped), the horn button (also unique to to Stratos?) and hub/boss almost certainly confirm the 'provenance' as original Stratos.

I'm sure you could spend less money recreating an exact replica(s) in new condition (as Gerry has done?) but for some that could never be original and therefore never as valuable.

Madness?!

**ProtoTipo** · 07-03-2015, 08:38

Originally Posted by Spartan

I'm sure you could spend less money recreating an exact replica(s) in new condition (as Gerry has done?) but for some that could never be original and therefore never as valuable.

Exactly.

No matter how exact a replica car or replica car part is, it will never be an original.
Original Stratos cars are now selling at auction for well over £200,000. Any issues of them being laid up for long periods or unsympathetic ownership are secondary to them being complete and the real thing.

Rare 'old' steering wheels for rare 'old' cars.
Having said that, I expected £1,000 to have been enough, but then in all this time, I've never seen an original Stradale horn push on ebay...

**Stratie.fr** · 13-03-2015, 00:29

For sale in Italy
for anyone searching a genuine Sandro Munari steering wheel
http://www.kijiji.it/annunci/ricambi...nuovo/68431463

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**ChrisC** · 13-03-2015, 10:29

Cheap bonnet with what looks like correct louvre panels in side advert.

http://www.kijiji.it/annunci/ricambi...cambi/67579594

**LM mic** · 13-03-2015, 10:54

It's not selling price !
The guy want to swap to a stradale bonnet ..; and he is interested to acquire any original part , even damaged chassis or watever "junkyard lancia stratos part "!!!!!!
This is from what I understood doing a "straigth on" traduction of what they are writing on that add !!!

"Italiano non ela mia lingua natale ma lo parlo abbastanza bene":
Italian is not my native language but I speak quite fluent tecnic !

**ChrisC** · 13-03-2015, 11:57

I was always hopeless at languages

**ProtoTipo** · 13-03-2015, 16:44

Compare this steering wheel with a genuine period Ferrero Munari signature item;
Note the stamped signature marking, rather than engraved. Also note the lack of countersunk holes, the thickness of the metal, and the new trimming.