Art & Inspiration Who all have cragar's on their ride?

15 x 8 reversed and 15 x 6 on the 57 as rollers

 

Bought em for $40.00 while bringing them back to my swap meet spot, a guy stops me
(Saw the Cragar center caps) and asked too look closer at them said they had to be rare. lol
Also had found that old advertising add with Grumpy Jenkins selling them
They look beefy and would be really cool with a set of pie crust slicks

 

My neighbor had a pair last year that he found he said he was going to bead blast them then I didn't see them anymore, not sure what happened to them.

 

Another interesting Cragar is this all aluminum one piece that was made in the early 2,000's.
What's really interesting to me is that the spoke design is very similar to the early round spoke, they were only available in 15x7, 15x8, 17x7, 17x8

 

Mmmm...... What diameter are those?????.....

 

I had a set in the early 80’s when I was in Phoenix. Never got to mount them though, a kinda crazy night led to two days in the hospital and a hole in my gas tank.
When I got out, my buddy took me to a wrecking yard, I’d forgot my wallet. He paid for the tank.
I don’t recall the conversation much, but somehow he wound up with the wheels and put the tank in for me.

Oh, yes, love’em!

 

17

 

I got this hat at a car show @ 1979 the 1st 25 people registered received a Cragar hat I think I took it to every car show for the next 30 years.

 

This is the only picture I could find of my 60 with CRAGARS

 

Ok... I was thinking maybe you swiped it from Ted Nugent....

 

My ol 55 in the 80's with 14 x 10's on the rear, 15 x 5 on the front. L-88 427 under the hood.

 

Those were 15x7 and 15x8 in 5x4.5 bolt pattern for sale for $350, if they were 5x4.75 pattern I would've bought them, in hindsight I probably should've bought them anyway.

 

Cragars are heads on 4 cyl Fords, mags are for guns, wheels are steel with a hubcap - there I got it off my chest. HAHAHAHahahah!!!!

 

Just like high school....

 

At my age its a four track blasting James Brown.

 

View attachment 4927815 My 57 Chevy back in the 80’s at Maple Grove! Later my Vette had them too! However it was pro street , so no picture allowed. Also had them on my 96’ Chevy 1500 custom painted pickup.

 

YES, these are Cragars, just a different flavor. > Cragar S/X, I believe only made for a couple of years in early 70s. One piece aluminum with a chromed steel cap that is held on by 3 screws from the backside. 15 x6.

 

That 55 trips my trigger, love the way you have it done.

 

Do you know much history on your vette. My dads old vette was silver with a sort of burnt orange side scallop. He sold in around 1975. I tracked it to Nebraska from Illinois but thats where the trail ended. Ive been searching for his vette for 25 years. I do have a vin number somewhere too. I'll have to look for it. It had black interior too. Is there a green color over the silver?
Thanks
Tim Ingram

 

cragars with wide whites

 

Cragar's have been on ALL my cars (Except my college car, a new Chevette Scooter). I had a pair of Cragar GT's in 14 X 6 with the 4-3/4" bolt pattern, that I pulled out of a dumpster at a storage complex where I kept my Pro Bracket, 56 Chevrolet, Model 150, Utility Sedan, and then later on my FED. Found a lot of stuff in that dumpster. Those wheels were in really good shape, and since the centers were't chromed, there was't any flaking there. I wound up giving them to a guy who's Mother was a Nurse I worked with; also gave him an old cast iron Powerglide that had been in a 57 Chevrolet Junior Stocker. He used them both in/on his 61 Chevrolet 4 door sedan, and I told him repeatedly he'd have to shorten his front drive-shaft 3 inches; he did't listen very well I guess. They're still selling those 1 piece aluminum Cragar "S/S" wheels, and they're direct bolt-on. I have a set of big and little Cragar S/S wheels with tires that had been on the 51 Chevrolet Business Coupe Street Gasser; they're sitting in one of the sheds waiting their turn at a project. That yellow 55 sure looks nice, but I'm guessing it's really a Model 150 with the Model 210 side trim added. Cragar's for the win! I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Not mine, but a nice look.

 

They seem to work well with the styling on my Comet.

 

This car was sitting since 1975 sporting Cragars. The Cragars looked cool on almost everything.

 

There's something different to the new SS wheels. Does the openings have more of a square look?

That black/red 64 Galaxie is nice! That is one of the nicest cars ever made..