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 sven
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| posted on January 27th, 2003 at 10:05 PM |
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Identify some Wheels
I have seen these wheels on a few cars, stumbled across 5 of them today, just want to find out some info about them. can anyone help?
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 06:07 AM |
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Sprinstar repros grab or if ya dont want em I would gladly buy em.Can you get more.
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 06:16 AM |
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Is the center section pressed steel or cast alloy??
they look similar to the SA wheels could be early ones of these have a look at this post http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=3229
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 08:00 AM |
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mmm- sorta different from sprints cos the 'spaces' are much closer to the middle hub rather than at the outer edge of the rim. Not really
like rostyles either for the same reason (mine only look so spokey because of the way I painted them - when you paint rostyles 'normally'
they do look very very similar to sprints although the 'straighter' spokes are a giveaway...).
These wheels are 15 in or 14 in diameter? I have a suspicion they could be 14s? And alloy? And 6 inches wide?
........suit a beetle best?
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 08:36 AM |
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I am pretty sure they are a 14x6 they were intended for a VW based fibreglass "sports car" sitting on a mid 60's pan. The centres
appear alloy from the corrosion and the outer is steel (there is a little surface rust). They may well be on the market soon.
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 09:14 AM |
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If the centers is Alloy then i think they are some made by John Sabidusi, a few years ago.
He made several sets with different centers and was always experimenting, with different stuff.
He was a wizz with crankshafts and used to counterweight and off set grind them. Jak Rizzo has one of Sabs cranks in his engine at the moment
Unfortunatly he was killed in a mining accident a while ago. He used to live in Mittagong
Sven you say you have seen several sets are they available
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 09:22 AM |
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Only found 5 so far but there is a large amount of stuff in the owners garages. I even pick up original VW service manuals Type 2 circ.1959 and VW
engines circ.1969
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 04:17 PM |
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Yes I think your right Dave, look like a set of Sab's wheels. 14x6 is what he made them in, alloy centre and chrome steel rim.
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| posted on January 28th, 2003 at 06:51 PM |
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yeah Boris has a set of his wheels, but there different to these ones.
They were never finished and i dont know why but as you say Sab always liked 14 Inch wheels for some reason.
Maybe it was the better selection of tyres back then.
Sabs stuff still comes outta the wood work.
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| posted on February 5th, 2003 at 11:27 AM |
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i think they are Keel wheels, they were made in australia (possible south australia) in the 60's. Keel also made wheels in similar and different
styles for other makes of cars.
if you are interested in selling them, please send me an e.mail or call me on 02 9489 3603.
henry.
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| posted on February 6th, 2003 at 08:59 AM |
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Thanks for the info will post when they are on the market.
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| posted on September 9th, 2007 at 09:19 PM |
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What happened to these rims??
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| posted on September 9th, 2007 at 09:28 PM |
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nice find
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| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 01:51 PM |
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They are unpainted Keels. Locally made.
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| posted on September 10th, 2007 at 07:38 PM |
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Nice 'thread exhumation' from ...2003!
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| posted on October 9th, 2007 at 10:52 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Nice 'thread exhumation' from ...2003!
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Worthy of a comment well done !!
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| posted on October 9th, 2007 at 11:30 AM |
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These wheels were purchased on the weekend by a mate!
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