Does anyone here recognize these wheels? they have Cragar center caps, but no name on the wheels themselves at all. I've never seen a Cragar anything like these, so caps may well be added later. they are 14x7 aluminum and have 16 spokes. I was told they were purchased around 1978, but not even positive on that. I plan to sell them before long, but would like to know more about them first.
Great looking car...as far as the wheels go, and I could be wrong but, they look like a turbine wheel that came out on Corvettes of the mid to late 70's...like I say, I could be wrong.
So, I guess I was was right when I said I might be wrong...(sounds like something my wife might say in an argument). Still a beautiful car, sorry I can't be of more help. Now that I look at your your original post...I should have realized, when you posted 14 inch wheels.
A little off topic, but, what are you planning for your Vette?
I'll be stripping the very poor quality blue paint off and spraying bc/cc Maroon or black cherry. interior will get touched up a bit, although it's pretty good already. current 64 Chevelle 283 engine will be replaced with a pullout 90 Vette TPI 350 engine. and the wheels will be replaced.
I just began a blog on the corvetteforum titled "end of the world 62 build" (only one more day to go. I better get busy )
Hey Russ, 62 is my favorite year for Corvette, I just about owned one in the early 70's, I was trying to buy a 37 Chevy 1/2 ton and a 62 Corvette at the same time and both the guys that owned the vehicles had the same last name...My mother took a message from "some guy named Wolfe said that he accepted your offer"...I was closer to the deal on the 1/2 ton and phoned him and said, so you accept my offer ($117.50), he reluctantly said yes so I bought the truck...I found out 3 weeks later it was the guy with the Corvette that had phoned me and when I asked him about the car he told me that he had called but I never phoned back and he sold it. One of those deals that I'm still kicking myself for assuming. But, I did get a killer 37 Chevy.
I now have a 59 that's been tucked away for years that I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet...I'll get to it in the next 2 years but it's #'s matching and all there so it will probably be a frame off back to original.
I'm sure I don't have to tell you but don't let go of the 283 easily, good ones are getting hard to find.
If you need any help or information when it comes time to do your paint and body or just want input let me know and I'll be happy to offer any advice I can.
That was my first thought also, but definitely not Western. small differences, but not Cyclone II . I was digging around in a box of receipts that came with the car, and ran across a receipt from 1978 for "(4) 4712-34 Lonestar 16 fin" $100.00 from Six Robblees' inc. there is a wheel company called Lonestar, but the company is only 5 years old, so that can't be the same company. The receipt doesn't actually say "wheels" but the "16 fin" and being from Six Robblees is pretty convincing evidence. I'd still like to know more about these wheels if anyone has more reliable info.
.. Similar to 15" Western Wheels I put on my '77 GP back in '76... no idea how many spokes... can't remember if some fins between the lugnuts... I picked Western over other brands of that turbine style because the fins came all the way out to the edge of the wheel... BA Barracas/Mr. T/A-Team van has same ones... they look good and period on that 'Vette...
Hey Russ! They sort of look like some ET Mags with universal lug holes and, I think they where made of Magnesium.
I bought them in the Early 80's and they were 14X7 that I had on my Pontiac 72 Ventura. Just thought I 'd put that out there.
Cobra427sc
Finishing up a 79 lesebre. The wheels are going to be polished up. However one is damaged from hitting a curb. I need one wheel of this sort. Who makes them? What are they? Thank you.
Does anyone here recognize these wheels? they have Cragar center caps, but no name on the wheels themselves at all. I've never seen a Cragar anything like these, so caps may well be added later. they are 14x7 aluminum and have 16 spokes. I was told they were purchased around 1978, but not even positive on that. I plan to sell them before long, but would like to know more about them first.
my friend has a set of old cragars on his 56 belair and they say cragar s/x on the centercap. they look just like torque thrust but the cap doesn't have the 5 bolts holding it on like trq thrust . I have never seen them on any thing else. they are sweet!
my friend has a set of old cragars on his 56 belair and they say cragar s/x on the centercap. they look just like torque thrust but the cap doesn't have the 5 bolts holding it on like trq thrust . I have never seen them on any thing else. they are sweet!
.. The early 'Cragar 5-spoke mags' around mid 1960's, apparently for patent reasons, had the opposite spoke shape from American Racing SS 5-spokes... the Cragar spokes were fatter in the inner ends and smaller on the outer ends, opposite of A.R.'s... I didn't like those Cragars... later they switched to A.R. SS style...
.. The press-in center caps (and stock wheel covers) prolly weren't legal for dragstrip use, because they popped out easily on bumps... could hit spectators... hence the A.R. centercaps have 5 screws holding them on... of course, press-in center caps were great for the sales of replacement centercaps...!!
These look like my Grewal 14 vane mags that are similar to the Western Cyclone aluminum finned mags. Specs on the mags are Max wheel load 1580 lbs. with Sema 5-1A AF 345569 stamped on rear. Came in 15 x 7 and 15 x 8
inch models. Put up a thread years ago, and one reply came back that were the mags offa Mr T's van from the TV show back in the 70s or 80s.
T.
Those 16 fin wheels were known as Fenton Wheels, I am not sure if Fenton is the company that made them or not. I had a set on a 1968 ford pickup, but I know that back in the 70's they made a lot of them.
Those are Fenton Wheels, 16 fins, they were very popular in the 7o's.
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