Re: Radial Tires and Wheel Covers

Posted by HH56 On 2010/12/19 19:20:22

Will let the tire experts go there but just remember if going radial, get something as close as possible diameter wise to what was on your car -- otherwise you will need to find a proper speedo drive gear for anything really different.

Hard to tell if a gap but if that is the wire wheel cover which it kind of looks like around the wheel weight, then rare and fairly expensive to find today--although some have been fortunate on ebay.

If that is a real wire wheel and the small wire hubcap that accompanies it, you can buy a set of repro wire wheels and hubcaps from Kanter. If you already have wires, repro hubcaps only can be found from Kanter and other vendors...although I don't know if true, but have heard there might be a slight size mismatch trying to put original caps on new wires and vice versa.

Unless you already have a set of wires in excellent shape, IMHO it would be less expensive to go repro than to try and find an original set then pay the cost of repairing, straightening, replacing spokes, rechroming and whatever else is needed to assure the old wheels are roadworthy.