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more likely then not... this is the wheel that has been seen by more people then any other design

http://kevershop.nl/2534.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/...cb0209.jpg?v=0

http://www.classiccamber.com/1965_460.jpg

stock 4 lug VW beetle wheel
also used on other VW's

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Originally Posted by looneybin (Post 4135349)

Those are cyclones & they were on the general lee

Here you go:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219469477.jpg

Save money for the engine with dog dish hubcaps.

http://images.traderpub.net/img/10/d...82789072_1.jpg

The Model T wheel; design and construction borrowed significantly from the stagecoach wheel:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219511364.jpg

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Originally Posted by BeyGon (Post 4134878)

Real Americans like on my 71 455 Skylark, as old as the car

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219442584.jpg

I always liked those...

For the 4X4 set...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219511696.jpg

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Originally Posted by gattaca (Post 4135338)

Borrani wheels:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219458986.jpg

A piece of trivia, the open hand that you see on the knockoff on a Borrani wheel shows that they paid a patent royalty to Rudge Whitworth (British motorcycle, see my sig) for the offset spoke design. SmileWavy

I have always liked the Fuchs on a 914-6

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219519992.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1219524446.jpg

Being an old VW guy, I always loved 4 bolt sprint stars!
Not my car, but a good shot of the wheels....

Really, aren't a huge number of these related??

The Torque-thrust D, Cragar SS and Fuchs are extremely similar as well as many other copies. I suspect that some of them were patterned after the others. So which came first. I think there was even an old Lotus racecar that had wheels that looked pretty much the same except for no holes. So it seems that several of these wheels have common roots.

Even the BBS mesh wheels, of which there were innumerable copies appear to me to be trying to look like old wire wheels.

i wonder how rare that 917 space saver is?

These were very popular. Similar to other same vintage American designs:

http://images.traderpub.net/img/deal...201-0726_1.jpg
http://www.oldsmobility.com/images/SSI1.jpg

And then of course this one - timeless and on any benz for what - 20 years?
http://genesis-tyresandalloys.co.uk/...l%20Refurb.jpg

Of course, these are just hubcaps, but iconic nevertheless:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/20674...30FDCFC4C15FBB

where's the EMPI's and Mickey Thompsons?