Re:Wheels/Was: Hornet, two weeks later

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mark Price wrote:

> I looked into this and the only way I found to get 14X7 or even
> 15X7 that will take the stock AMC 10 1/8"[IIRC] dogdish caps is to
> buy a set of wheels from Vintiques, classic wheel or some such
> place. The early fords shared the Rambler dogdish cap size as did
> Studebaker, I have a set of 15X4" stude wheels! You can get these
> wheels,around $60-80 a piece depending on retailer. I guess it
> depends on how much you like the look wether you wish to spend
> this much. The other choice is to locate a wheel shop and have a
> set widened! Again, not a Junkyard find. I found no sources when I
> was looking. That's why my American now wears Early Chevy Rally
> style wheels in multi bolt pattern with Chevy no name police caps.
> I'm going to order some Vinyl letter R's in Red script style and
> apply them and call it done!

Thanks for the tips! I've owned a reasonable amount of nice wheels
on carious cars. My Rambler wears American Racing Torque-Thrust
D's. THey look great, are great quality.

But for some reason I've really grown attached to the utter
simplicity and cleanliness (visually, and brake dust!) of steel
wheels. I'll probably call Vintiques and get smoothies. I'll ask
'em about the hubcap issue.

Once I knock down the more critical projects I want to get wheels

done!