Alpha Romeo was founded in 1906 by a French automobile firm with some Italian investors. In 1920 the name Alpha Romeo was adopted. An early driver was Enzo Ferrari. The company has produced race cars and solid road cars.
RESTORATION PROCESS:
I removed the old plastic, bead blasted the frame and painted it black, the same color as the new plastic. Through my proprietary process, I cast on a specially formulated thermoset UV stable urethane plastic in the original configuration without loss of the original detail (note the fine line grooves in the face of the rim of the wheel). The plastic does not shrink, crack, turn yellow or change colors.
The steering wheel frame was placed into the appropriate mold. The clear liquid urethane plastic was tinted black and added to the mold. Upon completion of the curing process, the plastic was heat treated, sanded and polished. The color is uniform throughout the plastic and the finished product is polished plastic, not a painted wheel. The molded plastic is one complete casting, there are no joints.
