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I added another customizing touch to the roadster yesterday. One more deviation from stock. This one, I blame on Andrew Murphy.
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Looks great! where did you find that rare piece of kit?

It's not that rare. I was shopping for a "Real" Empi GT wheel, but seeing as they are Ebaying for a grand or more, I started to look for alternatives.

This is one of the alternatives. What you are seeing is a "Flat 4" Replica of the Empi wheel. And it is a dead-on replica at that. It's still in production and readily availible.

I bought it from a VW parts house in Carson, VWISPWest http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... ?id=171314

They shipped it with the VW hub, Which did'nt do me much good, but I wanted the horn Bezel. I bought the Grant hub adapter from Summit Racing. I was aprehensive that it would push the wheel out too much. No worries, It is now precisly where the stock wheel was located. I also needed to buy 3, 1/4'', fine pitch, Allen drive bolts to replace the metric ones that came with the VW kit.

That is neat - the Empi is a cool wheel. What is more neat is that the horn button comes in different colors! Sweet!!

I wish you people would stop finding all these kewl items to put on our cars. It's really making it hard to focus on getting it running again.

to bad they don't make it in a smaller diameter like 13".

If you want a 13" wood wheel, Grant makes one.

I'm after a suicide ball, like my uncle had on his Massey Harris
That's a tractor for you city slickes

A friend and I found a real EMPI on a car he bought. Victor your wheel looks good.

Will