Re: Hornet, two weeks later

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According to my souses those are 14x6, not 7. The only 14x7 - 5 on 4.5" plain 
steel I found are 70-72 FoMoCo. The late 70s-80s 'magnums' are 14x7 as are the 
13 spoke aluminum 'turbines'. 

Ken

Quoting Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> " From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
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> " And I'm definitely going to keep the factory-steel wheels. I like
> " the dog dish hubcaps, even though I've found a set of decent 14x7
> " AMC rallye wheels complete for a decent price. Locally too. But I
> " really want 14x7 plain steel that take AMC dogdish hubcaps!
> " 
> " Does anyone know if there ever was a 14x7 plain steel wheel? Are
> " dog-dish hub caps interchangable across makes? Eg. will my AMC
> " hubcaps fit on Ford wheels?
> 
> i looked into this about as thoroughly as i could.
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> the only 14x7 amc steelies were the 'turbocast' rims with the styled
> urethane molding.  they would probably take a full wheelcover but
> not a hubcap even with the urethane removed.  it'd be nice to find i
> was wrong though.
> 
> mopar hubcaps changed size around '65-6; amc -may- be the same size as
> the old style.  mopar had 14x6.5" wheels in the late '50s - early '60s
> but no 14x7s, and possibly more than one 14x6.5, with different
> offsets.
> 
> ford had 14x7s in the '70s but afaik hubcaps aren't the same size.
> definitely center holes aren't, with fords the smaller.  btw they had
> two; a pre-disk with really-small center hole and a disk with a larger
> but still too small center hole.  it won't fit amc disks or v8 drums,
> trust me.
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