Description

High quality reproduction of the very rare and elusive 901 wood steering wheel.

The 901 Steering Wheel is a direct, factory-style bolt-on for all 911/912 models bullt between 1965 and 1973, and will accept any factory horn button used during that era, or our own 911RS horn button.

The 901 Steering Wheel reproduces the first factory wood wheel for the 9 series cars and features an aluminum armature that is visible on the inside of the wood rim, NOT fully encased like the later steel frame wheels, for an accurate reproduction of the original.

Porsche abandoned this exposed-armature style as a result in the inferiority of the alloys of the era, which allowed flexing due to the strain of the 180-degree opposed spoke positions, cracking the wood rim. This flaw is fully solved in our version by virtue of a small steel core running the full perimeter of the wheel, just outside the alloy frame inside the wood rim.

Tremendous effort and expense has been extended to faithfully recreate the alloy mounting hub and stamped steel top horn mounting ring. The assembly method is EXACTLY as the original, using correct, genuine German DIN steel round-head rivets and unique tooling. Many hours have been spent reverse-engineering the tooling for compressing the rivets EXACTLY as the original wheel.