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Curious as to what wheels these are. Does anyone know? This is my Dad's 53 Chevy from back in the day.

 

May be Foremost wheels but not positive.

 

Kelsey-Hayes Stripper.....

 

I'm with DDDenny, Drag Mags by Foresight Ventures

 

That DDD guy doesn't know what he's talking about, but I think you are on to something.

 

Here's an old thread on them, there have been a few like them.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/any-info-on-these-drag-mag-wheels.89141/

 

[/ATTACH] I have 4 of these, 15/8 and how rare are these

 

For sale by any chance? Love those wheels, but they're hard to find.

 

They came from a Goodyear Racing Tire Dealer in Dallas, Bob Schroeder. i have never seen another set. The clearcoat has turned to dust. The adapters are drilled for 4-1/2 and 4-3/4 Ford and Chevy pattern. From what I remember they were for a 50 model Ford with a small center hub. Camp make bicycle parts in Italy. PM me if interested. Frank

 

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I looked on the Web and could not find anything but bicycle wheels.

 

You didn't look hard enough. Campagnolo made wheels for a lot of foreign car companies, mostly Italian. Abarth, De Tomaso, Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia, Lamborghini, Maserati, BMW and even Porsche

 

Alleman racing wheels. Redondo beach?? 6 pin... Never have seen another or have any info on the manufacturer.

 

Love that Impala, wheels look great on that car

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Not real rare but unusual.
ORIGINAL 1960s "D" spokes polished and modified >>15 x sixes narrowed to 4 1/2 wide and 15 x 7s widened to 15 x NINE.
These were done to fit an Anglia I had about 27 years ago > Car is long gone but I still have the wheels.

 

14x15 Cragar SS 5on5 pattern

 

Love the D's, especially the narrow ones, curious who did the work, not a lot of people doing them anymore. A friend of mine has had Lonnie Gilbertson do a few sets and I know Eric Vaughn did a lot of them.

 

Seeing these reminds me of the Dave Gale Doane Clone Deuce after his change to the red color and the American Racing Wheels which had the narrow width in the outer lip area.
John Coute changed that car around a bit by adding wider Americans.

IMHO I feel that it looked great in Dave Gale guise with D spokes.

 

18x2 up front 11x15 halibrands out back

 

Harry
We need to see more of your car.

 

I had a set of Campagnolos on my '71 Fiat. They were grey painted magnesium.

 

http://www.campagnolo.com/US/en

 

I bought these Appliance 15x8.5 x 5" (Olds) back in about '66 when I was getting parts for my Willys gasser clone. Had a set of 14x6 for the front but sold them when I got the great Halibrand repro gasser mags for the front. had 'em polished.

 

I AM a fan of these wheels, probably because all the yahoos with jacked up '72 Novas wearing 50 series tires scooping the loop of my town wore the Cragar SS. And I wanted something different.

When I was working on a '39 Chevy project 20 years ago I searched out a set of GT's and fully polished them. I used 14" on the front and 15" on the rear. Different enough to not be mistaken for an SS, but similar enough to been recognized as a vintage Cragar. The 14" wheels are common (if any GT can be called common), but a 15" wheel is hard to find. The most common bolt patterns are 4.5 and 4.75, but I've seen a couple 5" at swap meets. I've never seen a 5.5" BC wheel. And all Cragar GT wheels are 6" wide. I've never heard, read, or seen of any other width.

I used the smooth spoke, which is my favorite and the most common, but there are a few of the inset spoke out there as well. They are called GT too, even though the spoke has a really different look to it.

 

hilborn injection looks funny in the first pic????

 

Actually if I remember right the other G/T CRAGAR was called the G/T Plus. I'm at work so I can't get to my catalogs

 

I always liked these wheels as well - I've had a few sets come and go but never had them on a car. Never bought a full set at a time, always one or two, then find another one or two at a time. Which makes sense as the cars I recall as a kid with these usually only had them on the front.

The new one piece Cragar G/T (below) amazingly is very close in appearance, except that its all aluminum - considering how messed up the new flat spoke looking S/S Cragar is its quite a surprise how good these turned out.

 

Another set I should have kept, not truly defined as "rare" since they aren't particularly desired, but certainly unusual and hard to find in a full set. JC Penney "Trac Tamer", these were 14x6 with a 5x5 bolt pattern! Typical composite steel rim/aluminum center, but welded not riveted, nice construction, I'm assuming they were actually built by Appliance Plating. Note the center cap does not have the screws like most Torq Thrust copies. They ended up on the Starfire below, somewhere in BC.

 

Not positive on the make, I'm thinking US or Rocket. They came on the front of the Barrious/Minall LSR roadster I bought in 1981. When I rebuilt the car I felt it needed a narrow track and a new axle was made and reversed the wheels on the hub. No front brakes so no problem hitting anything. The back side got the Moon Disc treatment too, attached to the spindles. Look different on backwards.