Art & Inspiration Wide Five Picture Thread

I love the utilitarian look of the wide five Ford wheels, I am starting a picture thread of them. Please post any pictures of wide five's and we will see where this go's. These are pictures of a wide five Dick Spadaro adapter and then same adapter with my Highway 101 adapter cover over it. Jim Ford

 

Here's my '39 before I put the stock hubcaps (& hood, sidepanels) back on

 

One of my old coupes...

 

Those look great keep them coming. Thanks Jim Ford

 

I just scored 4 wide 5s with mounted WWW. checked them out and they were 15". someone had welded the wide 5 centers to 15" outers. they had been run for a while, I hope they ran true.

 

My 36 coupe with wide 5s rears have been widened to 6"

 

I love them too. Here is a '32 Roadster I built in 2006 in it's early mock-up stages.

 

Great pics, thanks. Here are some pics of my adapter cover. Jim Ford

 

We use a lot of them around here.

 

Nice Marty, I like the cars that you build. Jim Ford

 

My '29 ....

 

Nice 29

 

More pics please. Thanks Jim

 

My favorite wheel setup nice thread
Scrap Metal 48 , that A is one Bad Ass car.


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heres my 27, been running it
On these wheels for a decade.


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Last summer I had a little fun laying out parts for the FutureCoupe.

 

An updated pic of Milos old coupe.

 

mine

 

How about some home brewed 15's.

 

How bout just on the back of the ol Peter Beater.....

 

Beauty rings and 39 caps on my 32

 

My first set.

 

Thanks for the pics guys that is great. Wide fives seem to end up on the coolest cars or maybe they just make the coolest cars with their look. Jim Ford

 

Here are a couple of pics of the display wheel I painted for the OVAC swap meet this weekend. Jim

 

Where this hard to build?
What is the outside part of the rim from?

 

Flathead,
These pics will show my method of doing them. I use an aluminum plate that is for balancing wide 5's to hold the centers in the lathe while turning the OD of the center. There are two different outer hoops available, one with a 12.625" center opening, and one with 13. 312". I like the ones with the larger center opening, as it leaves more of the scallop in the center of the wheel. After machining the centers to size, I press them in to the desired back space, getting them close to alignment. I have a stand, mounted on my welding table with a spindle and hub, that I use to spin and finalize the run out before tig welding them on the front side. BTW the desired outer hoops are are hard to obtain, as they are used by the makers of OEM style wheels.

 

I widened a 4" to 5 1/2 by adding 1 1/2" to the backspacing... using a piece cut from another wheel

 

isn't that interrupted cut hard on equipment?

 

Bob, My lathe weighs 5300 lbs, not much flex. But then, I am not a machinist, just a guy with machines.