Hi all,

Trying to establish a fair market value of this factory 914-6 911 RS steering wheel. Factory numbers are 914 347 806 10 dated 4/70. The leather has dry cracks otherwise very clean. I also have in excellent condition the horn button. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I get around $600 for one like that. Usually from the EarlySreg guys. It's not really an RS wheel. RS wasn't made in 70. The 911 guys care about the dates as well as the model number.

Thanks for your help mepstein. I was thinking around that price range.

It's not a 6 wheel with that plastic cup on the back..... and other details.
It is leather and still desirable.

As the Pickers say that's full retail...GLWS...join 911s registry

Just pull the plastic cup off and it has the 2 counter sunk holes for the 914-6 and 911 cancel ring.

806 10 is a real six wheel. Someone just bolted on an early 4 plastic hub. Before people cared about date codes and model numbers, they were all just steering wheels.

Doh !!!
...not the usual course of events.
The numbers are the facts.
Good clarification Mark.
Isn't there a different recess at the shaft entrance ?

http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums/sh...=steering+wheel

perfect $950 5/2019

No. The hubs between an early for and a six are identical. Only the model numbers are different.

I gave away a leather wrapped one at the open house, so there is one point of reference, $0.

All of the bits for these cars are getting pricey.

I've been keeping a spreadsheet on my build and it is getting up there to the point that I struggle knowing that I could have bought a really nice driver at that price point.

But, then I console myself by knowing that said driver would likely still need lots of the stuff I've bought. Plus, I will drive in the knowledge that the parts are fresh and not 40-50 year old worn out stuff.

The first rule of 914World is "Never add up your receipts." If you add up all you spend on your 914, you will be astonished at how much you spent on this rusty old sports car. You could have had a nice, new Cayman R with good, cold AC and a factory warranty. You end up selling your 914, buying the Cayman, and dropping out of 914World. That starts the self-loathing for being a quitter, your wife ends up hating you, your kids start to despise you, your dog poops in your shoes, and the Fedex and UPS Delivery drivers for your route get laid off because you stopped buying parts. They lose their houses, their kids end up in a foster homes. They get resentful, and one day they show up and trash your Cayman.

Places like Zims, Pelican, Stoddard, etc.. go out of business due to the lack of parts sales. Their employees lose their houses, cars, and families. The same goes for the families and kids of the parts suppliers. All those kids go to foster homes and end up living in a closet under the stairs and eating scraps.

Don't total your receipts. There is a HUGE economy built just to supply you with parts to keep your rusty old 914 sorta on the road.

Think of all the children your parts purchases help to feed. Think of the children!

I saw that

So, keeping, maintaining, restoring, and driving a Porsche 914 is going to save the world?

That's brilliant, Clay.

I never thought about the repercussions of rejecting 914 ownership.

I have a leather wrapped and an Ebonite wheel, they usually go for around $250-300 unrestored

803 10 & 806 10 are six wheels
804 10 & 805 10 are early four wheels
All exactly the same hub but some people care about numbers.

I have both -6 and early -4

Unrestored average selling price (not the outrageous asking prices) here, samba, e911r is still around $250-$300

Your wheel will fetch more due to the RS association

914.347.803.10-hard rubber 914-6 70-71
914.347.804.10-hard rubber 914-4 70-71
914.347.804.11-hard rubber 72 up
914.347.805.10-leather 914-4 70-71
914.347.805.11-leather 914-6 and 914-4 72 up
914.347.806.10-leather 914-6 70-71 & RS Carrera
914.347.809.00-fake leather 72 up

I remember giving one away at a swap meet for $5. I offered the guy to take a better condition one I had instead that wasnt sewn but he wanted this one. Left me wondering what I didnt know

You’re so right. But I’m an engineer - I can’t help myself. I’m addicted to spreadsheets and knowing my car down to the last but and bolt.

Now that I have realize the implications for so many, I promise to forge ahead even knowing what it cost!

I agree, it is four cylinder steering wheel, we have at least 30 on the shelf in this condition, I would say 250 for a core value, to be restored. There is a place in Texas that does a great job restoring

You are totally wrong. 806 10 has always and only been a six wheel.
Take a look at some of your cars if you don’t believe me.

look at his pic , first post , it has the 4 banger plastic shroud still..
you are correct about, by the part book, that is a fact..
914 347 805 10 Steering wheel 1
Leather
But, its an assembly part number , because it comes with the 4 banger plastec hub extension with it......
Thats what makes the early 4 banger wheels an easy score....it an 806 10 wheel with some plastic screwed to it.

butt, by 8/70 they are marked 805 10 = both right
914 347 805 10 Steering wheel
Leather

The four leather wheel was 805 10. It’s not uncommon that wheels get moved from car to car. My early car came to me with a late wheel and early hub. It wasn’t built that way by Porsche. I have 20 early plastic hubs. If I add them to 803 or 806 wheels, it doesn’t make it an original four wheel.
I agree that lots of parts are interchangeable but that doesn’t make them something else.

Early four wheel. It didn’t supersede the 806 wheel. I agree it’s the same wheel except for the part number but it’s n the Porsche world like many others, specific part numbers, date codes and vins do matter.

OK so why is the OP wheel a 806 10 with the plastic 4 banger stuff on it ? Porsche did do some simple things in the 70s

The same reason my 71 has 2.0 Fuchs.
I like them and they fit

Might be hard to imaging, but there was a point in time when owners didn't care about them stamped numbers and mix-matched parts on their cars.

As stated several times in this thread, the /4 plastic parts do fit the 806 wheel. All it takes is a guy/gal with a screw driver to swap them over.

Probably a little easier to tighten three screws to a hub than switch a later wire harness into an early car. I'm betting that mod wasn't done at the factory either.

Realy, what probably happened is the present or past owner wanted a leather wheel instead of a hard plastic one and swapped the plastic hub.

If anyone reading this thread has an 806 10 wheel and is willing to sell for $300 or less, I'm a buyer. I'll take as many as you have.

dammit, still could be a unic0rn...

914.347.805.10-leather 914-4 70-71

I've had a few of them, not common, but not rare

I’ve had about 30 of them. Came on every one of my early 4’s but one. I sold a perfect one to a six owner for $1k.

I threw one of these away a couple of months ago.

It looked like old junk. Who knew?

Many ...

To make it even worse, while driving your trashed Cayman, you talk to other enthusiasts about your "Zambezi 914" like you still own it!

Paul

I still don’t care about numbers other then HP............ "