Art & Inspiration Wide Five Picture Thread

What was the donor wheel?

That is impressive.
Thanks

 

For you guys that are modifying them, there is FACTORY built 5 or 5 1/2" (i forget, i have 2 of them tho) wide 5's, kinda rare, but good stuff

ALSO there are 6 1/2" x 16 hoops on some late 90's GM p/u's and vans that work perfect, only problem is the front face is stamped as one piece with the rim, so they take a bit of work grinding them to look right. Otherwise they are perfect size hoops, just drop your center in place

 

My 39's wheel with vintage Firestone gum dipped tire.
and the spare in the trunk...

 

The original 5" wheels have a different looking center than the narrow ones,

 

Ford F250/350 16" 8 lug wheels......

 

I have a set of the wider (5 1/2 I think) wheels from a 41 3/4 ton. The centers are different.

Also rare are the factory 15 inch diameter wide five wheels. These were typically found on Marmon-Herrington 4 wheel drive conversions.

 

Hey guys thanks for the tech on shrinking and widening. Jim Ford

 

Here are pics of what I think are early 36 spoked wide five wheels, does anyone know for sure what these are?
Jim Ford

 

A couple of years ago I made these for my RPU. I used 2001 Chev. truck spare tire rims. ( they are 16 inch) Hopefully I can get the pics to come up.I had a friend cut the centers out of the pickup wheels with a lathe,reversed the rim for looks, don't forget to redrill a new valve stem if you reverse.The centers fit in perfect,

 

That is nice to know that they fit right because a lot of 16 rims are too small. How wide are they?
Jim Ford

 

Those are aftermarket Rocky Mountain brake drums, with ordinary wide-5's on them.

Those drums are fairly rare.

 

Thanks for the info gimpyshotrods. Were there also special wheels for these and what was the purpose? Extra cooling? Jim Ford

 

The wheels were the same. The drum design was for weight and cooling.

They are more commonly seen in the 5-on-5-1/2" pattern.

 

Happy new year 55 Willys and all hambers ...that is a nice looking piece your making there Willys ...but since your using the hamb to sell your parts don't you think you aught to join the alliance?.....

 

my jaguar wheels had a 13.25 center and I found ford and chevy truck wheels were workable
5x5 wheels and 5x5.5. I have no exact measurements but they pressed on nicely

 

Do you know if they were ever available to fit 37-39 or just 36?

 

I've only ever seen '36 ones.

There may have been later ones, but I don't know.

 

Any source for later ford caps like the ones pictured on the roadster for these wheels other than the 36 caps from Vintique / drake ?

 

^ those caps on the coupe are rare as hens teeth! Another option is the Lincon Zepher caps.
Bill

 

I was waiting for the new year to do that and it is done and when I get my website set up I will be an alliance vendor also. Jim Ford

 

Bringing this to the top with pics...

 

Here's mine. just started to work on it again.

 

Here's a pair I picked up for 20 bucks. So did these wheels also come on trucks? The ones I have on my car are stamped 1937. These tires are huge, maybe they were on a trailer?

 

Those are car rims, truck rims are wider and have a different center that has 5 small slots as opposed to the artillery style center.

 

55willys what were the difference in withs for? I took the tires off today and noticed the difference, there's a half inch. Thought maybe the narrow ones are for the front or on different cars? I noticed this before on my car, I bought 5 and one was narrower, I used the wider 4

 

Great thread

I'll be running wide 5's on my 26 RPU. I'll see if I have any pics

 

i have wides on my rdst pu, one of my fronts is 3 1/2'' wide off aV8-60 car, the other is 4'', widened rears to 5 1/2''. truck rims are 5 1/2'' but different looking inners.

 

What he said^^^^^

 

Yep, just to reiterate the original sizes available from Ford:

16x3.5" - V8-60 (Ford Standard) Passenger Car
16x4" - V8-85 (Ford Deluxe and optional Standard) Passenger Cars and 1/2 Ton Pickup
16x5" - Optional on 1/2 Ton Pickups, Standard on 3/4 ton and larger Trucks
18x4" - Optional "High-Clearence" Wheel on Trucks

 

PS: If anyone has a pair of the 16x5" truck wheels that are collecting dust, I'm looking for a pair...