Amen. I think they're '39 Ford pickup. They were NOS from Dutch, here in town. Still wide 5 but these are 5.5" wide.
I found one of these on my '36 when I bought it, and liked them much better than the usual piecrust wide 5's. I eventually found a set of 4 NOS in the East and put them all on my car. After a lot of research, I learned that they are 3/4 ton truck, '39-47. I really did find evidence for this, although I've forgotten where I learned it. These were mine: I had the rear rims widened to 7" by Rally America, and eventually painted them all alike.
More confused....as now that I read what Tony said, it rang my bell that that is what Dutch told me as well.
I just noticed Phil's post after 5 years. I guess I graduated from a Hot Rod Rake to a Frenched Rake (where I lived, it was just a "low rake") about 25 years ago. I never heard the term Rubber Rake until I lived in the Midwest, but I like it!
"Rake" refers in custom/hot rod terms to the stance of the car...and in this case it should set slighty on it nose (front Rake).............Just after HS I worked at Benjamin's clothing in Spring Branch........Every once in a while some guy from HS would park his car out front of our store.................1940 Ford Coupe, painted lime green, souped up flat head, can't remember what the wheel/tires were(hell, it's been 58 years ago) but I remember the "rake" ......set slightly on it's nose.........SO cool!!!................This 40 has a nice "rake"............. .....
LOL a 400 husky on a steel leaf rake because we know that plastic is totally unacceptable. Cruiser, When I was in my early teens we used to call a tail dragger stance on a hot rod and not a custom a "power rake" and down in the snout was called a "California rake" at least in the NW where I was spending a good portion of my time. In Nor Cal where I actually lived it was just called raked or not raked. Now that said and a side trip if I may, in the NW a rolling stop was called a "California stop" but in San Francisco where I lived a rolling stop was called a "Hollywood stop." I know it has nothing to do with the thread but if I didn't say it I would have it rolling around in my head all day. Fiddy long time no speak man. What's kickin'? I actually just read an article on Lou Senter and it is interesting to me that while someone once posted an ad for Ansen Sprints from a '65 or '66 magazine the article said that Ansen Sprints hit the market in '64 just like I have always believed (from being there). So a slot is not necessarily a Mullet wheel. Unless of course it is on a good times van. Oh and those Willys pickups are just freakin' ugly.
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