Your Opinons Please!!

[fla 66 cuda]

I agree with the last few comments put what you think/like on it.I personally think it looks fine with rallys but body color steeleys with dogdish is cool or a set of torque thrusts [my favorite for this body style] or some 500's would work it's your car do what you want don't worry what some one else thinks.

 

[Joe Mopar]

Them Rally wheels don't do the car justice for me. Beautiful car though, and yours, so do what makes you appreciate all your hard work .

 

[YY1]

:beerchug:Thanks for the thanks.

I got lucky and found a set of Ford 14x7 on CL for $40, and got 2 rusty 14" rallyes as a bonus.
I had to pay $80 for the center caps, and that was WAY less than most want!
I figure running the "Magnum 500" center stickers will eliminate any argument over the "correctness", or at least make it interesting.

 

[WileE]

None of the above in your poll.

The rallyes look totally out of place on the older cars.

This whole idea of the steelies and hub caps came about from people doing a as the "broadcast sheet said" OEM as factory delivered restoration. The old guys that had these cars new laugh at the whole thing as it was just not cool in the day. If you guys want to buy that steelie/hub cap look Kool-Aid go ahead but understand the the guys that bought these great cars new that you are now restoring are laughing at you.

The steel wheels with hub caps make it look like a performance car ordered new that was immediately going to the tire store for custom wheels. Everybody ordered them that way because it was standard and no one was going to spend extra money for wheel covers that they were going to be thrown away.

Period correct day two for this car would be Crager S/S, Torque Thrust Ds or Keystone Klassics.

Many of these cars ended up with the 67-68 Magnum 500s (Ford name for the Chrysler version but it is easier for most here that don't know the real name to understand what I am referring to) and they look GREAT on them.

I have said it many times in the past for like type threads, the young guys that bought these cars new couldn't wait to get the aftermarket wheels on their cars because the factory didn't offer anything "cool" until 67 on Mopars.

This is absolutely spot on, I couldn't agree more (although I only laugh at big 17"-up bozo wheels on these cars). Having lived through the era, I honestly can't remember having seen one single car with the steel/dish left on the car back then. They could've rolled off the trailer with donuts on, for anybody cared. Although, hey, if you like the look of the steel/dogdish, fine, do what you like first.

 

[MRHWS]

WOW....magnum 500's back in the day cost $79.95 ! i just paid 10 times that much for mine. HOLY INFLATION BATMAN !

I'll give ya sticker price for your ride

 

[Cranky]

I thought the 500's were a chrome wheel and the styled steel road wheels were not chromed but used a trim ring? Anyways, here's a pic of my 66 Belvedere with cop wheels. It had been raining and the car is dirty and I just wiped the wheels off for the pic....

 

[696pack]

I thought the 500's were a chrome wheel and the styled steel road wheels were not chromed but used a trim ring? Anyways, here's a pic of my 66 Belvedere with cop wheels. It had been raining and the car is dirty and I just wiped the wheels off for the pic....

Here is what the factory called them in 67-68
http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/DealershipDataBook/1967/67_Coronet0010.jpg

Here is what the factory called them in 1969 when they made the change.
http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/DealershipDataBook/1969/69_Coronet0012.jpg

 

[Budnicks]

Try Stockton Wheel they will make you some any backspace, offset & rim diameter to an extent, use your centers or what ever... Wheelvintiques many other brands, They also have the Billet types, if that's your deal, or the factory style "Road Wheels"/Magnum 500's almost any bolt pattern, rim diameter, backspace etc... etc...

 

[Budnicks]

On my 68 RR the "Road Wheels" had Chrome outer wheels & no trim rings....

 

[no462of12K]

center lines or mag 500 or -your dime how much do you want to spend--

 

[goose69]

Cheap steel wheels with those cragar hubcaps! Keeps your cost low.LOL!!! My buddy actually had the gaul to say those cragar hubcaps look like the real wheel and nobody could tell you the difference....... ignorance I tell you.
Do what you want to it. Everybody had their own likes and dislikes, if we didn't the wheel manufactures would only have to produce 1 wheel to satisfy EVERYBODY. Good luck.

 

[YY1]

Nice see-dan, there cranky. 'bout time we got to see it in the wild!

AMC centers?

 

[Ron 73]

Nice 66 Cranky, I to was wondering what she looked like.

 

[YY1]

Is that a/c I see in there? That'd be a strange option on a sedan.

 

[67 coronet]

setting up my newest ride with the steel paint to match,and dogdish caps.it all comes down to what you like.i am going 15 inch,with no trim ring,but my car is a hotrod not a stock looker at all.:icon_mrgreen: