MOMO Mod. 78 steering wheel
The MOMO Mod. 78 is the racing wheel as archetype: the deep-dish suede circle (Mod. 80 its flatter sibling) that generations of rally and race cockpits made the default — Italian steering heritage sold by bolt pattern.
History
MOMO's founding legend is steering-wheel history itself — Gianpiero Moretti's better wheel for his own racing, adopted by Ferrari's Grand Prix cars within years — and the competition catalogue's Mod. 78 became the archetype: a deep-dish (the 78's defining offset bringing the rim toward the driver in upright rally and touring cockpits), suede-rimmed, three-spoke circle in the 6x70 bolt-pattern standard, its siblings (Mod. 80's flat profile, Mod. 07 and the family) mapping dish depth and diameter across cockpit geometries.
The ubiquity is total: rally builds by reflex, historic and club racing, kit cars and the road-tuning world's aspiration market — with FIA-era cockpits pairing the wheels with quick-release bosses as standard architecture, and the suede-versus-leather choice a discipline signifier (suede for gloves, leather for street pretenders).
The used market carries the fame tax: counterfeits are epidemic (the brand's aspirational reach made fakes profitable decades ago), making authenticity forensics — hub stampings, spoke construction, rivet and stitching quality — the first diligence, with rim condition (suede wear is honest but restorable) and straightness completing it.
Palmarès
In the hands of rally and circuit champions across five decades — from the marque's Grand Prix adoption era to every national rally paddock since — the steering record of motorsport's default wheel.
What to check before you buy
Fakes first, always: MOMO counterfeits saturate marketplaces — verify hub stampings and codes, spoke construction quality, rivet and stitching detail against known-genuine references before paying brand money; bargains are fakes by prior probability. Then condition: suede rim wear (restorable by specialists; price the job), spoke straightness after crash lives, hub-face condition. Dish depth and diameter must suit your cockpit and boss stack — the 78's deep dish is a fit choice, not a default. Pattern compatibility (6x70) is the standard blessing. Genuine, straight and honestly-worn beats boxed-suspicious every time.
Did you know
- Moretti built the first MOMO because his own racing wheel disappointed him — and Ferrari's F1 team adopted the results, the founding story every wheel since trades on.
- Deep dish is ergonomics, not style: the 78's offset brings the rim to upright-seated rally drivers — cockpit geometry frozen into product form.
- The counterfeit epidemic is decades old — MOMO fakes predate internet marketplaces, making the brand motorsport's longest-running authenticity lesson.
In the marketplace now
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