question #1 where can i get one restored?
question #2 is the steering column filler piece supposed to be silver or black?
question #3 Does anyone reproduce the horn pad?

1) Doug Lepak http://members.shaw.ca/stwheels/index.htm
2) Silver
3) No not that I'm aware of but nice originals aren't that hard to find..

3) Yes I have seen it at Carlisle this year.....can't remember the vendor off the top of my head....

A shot of my wood grain. All drawn by hand.

Like most of the rest of my car, I'm likely to tackle the wheel resto for my '70 Bee myself but the outer wheel 'rim' is missing. Is there a source for this part?

Jeff, if you mean the steel ring, you'll likely have to find one from a donor wheel ... but then you might as well just re-finish the complete wheel.

I'm sure there is some source out there in the manufacturing world but none that I've come across yet.

Here are a series of photos showing a wheel I recently completed. It also was missing it's outer steel ring but I had a spare one lying around.

This is a crack in the rim and the groove where the ring should be.

This shot shows how the rim has shrunk and the inner ring no longer fits either.

This shot shows a test fitting of the outer ring before the repair work is started.

Next the original groove is filled with resin and then a layer of random weave carbon fiber cloth is applied around the outside of the rim and across any cracks.

2 coats of resin are spread over the carbon fiber building a shell around the wheel. The gaps around and behind the inner ring are also filled so it is no longer loose.

After sanding the resin smooth the outer ring is test fit again.

With the outer ring in place I apply resin to build up the rim around it. This ensures the inner and outer rings will have no gaps around or behind them.

On to the sanding. The resin is filed and sanded down so it leaves the rings flush with the surface of the rim. Nothing will be coming loose on this wheel again.

The inner ring.

The outer ring.

Now the rings are masked off and the Brown wood color is airbrushed onto the rim. Once set, I recreate all the wood grain by hand.

More painting ! Several coats of clear acrylic urethane (Glasurit/BASF brand paints) are sprayed on the rim. This seals the wood graining and the steel rings under a smooth incredibly durable surface.

After the clear sets for a few days I buff down the finish to a satin sheen that duplicates the factory look.

Voila ! Plus I can re-plate the spokes to the proper satin sheen. The wheel pictured has had the spokes re-plated.