wide 5 wheels/drums..their history?

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1,429 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 8 Mar 2005, 4:57 pm

#313202

alrighty, got wide 5's on my buggy front and rear, with drums front and rear also...

are wide 5's originally off beetles or what?

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57kombi Hannover Elder

2,544 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Mar 2005, 5:02 pm

#313209

Do you mean wide 5 as in the gap between the holes or wide as in a wide wheel.

The wide 5 came on all split buses and 68-69 bays, they also came on early type 3's and early beetles I think until 1967.

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Dave

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 8 Mar 2005, 5:02 pm

#313211

Pre 68 beetles, Split kombis, early Type 3's, country buggies etc etc etc.

Off heaps of things.

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5,158 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 8 Mar 2005, 5:13 pm

#313225

Doug Sweetman wrote:Pre 68 beetles, Split kombis, early Type 3's, country buggies etc etc etc.

Off heaps of things.

yep, they're all heaps, alright

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1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Mar 2005, 6:32 pm

#313298

also porsche 356's too, kubelwagens, schwimmwagens and their derivatives/variants.

Jon