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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:10 pm    Post subject: How rare is "the 500" steering wheel? Reply with quote

How rare is a 15 inch wood handle superior "the 500" steering wheel? Thinking about putting it on the old bug but want something semi rare to replace the stock steering wheel.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Superior Performance Products "500" wheel is not rare, you can find them on ebay almost all the time. Only NOS one's are hard to find. If you do use the Wood style "500" wheel I would use it with a Formula Vee horn button, VWOA did sell the same wheel with the horn button.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is a couple pics of the one I found out back

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=343480

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=343481

The chrome is actually very nice its just dirty in the pics from fingerprints the wood looks sweet too.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a Superior "The 500" steering wheel too. However the one I have doesn't have the rivets showing. I haven't seen many of these.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about a foam grip one?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a foam 500 on my go cart when I was a kid.

I wish I would have kept the steering wheel.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what about this one? the grip is like hard plastic
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have the hard rubber version on both of my vintage vans, pretty easy to find
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone just gave me a wooden one with the rivets showing. The chrome part is flat, so maybe they are used on boats too.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The rubber grip Superior 500 wheel felt nice, but I think it belongs on a dune buggy
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

they are really not that rare. The style was first introduced in about 1962 by either Grant (Glendale, CA) or Covico (Covina, CA), there is some dispute as to who was first. But eventually Grant bought out Covico, had them continue to do some of the work, including dipping the foam and plastic version and also selling them to Ansen (Los Angeles, CA). Superior Performance Products (Van Nuys, CA) pretty much just knocked them off, although some say Grant/Covico was making them for Superior anyway.
Many of the models are still available brand new from Grant, and the metalflake versions are available from Moon.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:24 am    Post subject: 500 Wheel Reply with quote

Made by Superior sold as a VW Formula Vee accessory.
The Formula Vee Steering Wheel was a simulated woodgrain and the metal was a satin finish not chrome.
Here's a complete NOS Formula Vee Steering wheel kit.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

not rare, but cool looking on a vintage "tuned" car; it's not screeming: get the "roll-cage and helmet", like for instance a small momo steering wheel does.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:08 am    Post subject: Re: How rare is "the 500" steering wheel? Reply with quote

This one I have does not say "Superior" on it (or anything really), could it be a Covico?
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It's hard to see in my crappy picture but the rim is finished in metalflake
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:20 pm    Post subject: Re: How rare is "the 500" steering wheel? Reply with quote

Slow 1200 wrote:
This one I have does not say "Superior" on it (or anything really), could it be a Covico?
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It's hard to see in my crappy picture but the rim is finished in metalflake


5 holes in the spokes is most likely a early Grant, Covico was 3 holes evenly spaced.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:58 am    Post subject: Re: How rare is "the 500" steering wheel? Reply with quote

It looks like it's probably a Grant, then, thank you! Can't wait to see how it looks once in the car
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