Hurst Mag Style Wheels
 

Has anyone seen the New Hurst Mag Style Wheels?

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Check these out on ebay:
Hurst Wheels

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Steve...are the caps new too ? If so there are some people vomiting right now who paid a whole lot of money for an NOS setof wheels a year or so ago !

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The originals where rivited together I believe. These repos will hurt the price of the originals but someone doing an all out resto will still pay plenty for a mint original set.
They will not want to see on the backside how they were welded together.
Is Hurst making these or another vendor?
Dave

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They are being made by a different vendor. I beleive they are being made in 14" flavor with original type beauty rings. They are also offering 15 through 18" ones with out the rings and just having the rim chromed. I'll try and get the guys information if anyone wants it.

Paul T

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Dave
I am curious.
Is the only difference from the originals the fact that they are not rivoted on the backside?
If so,once they are mounted on the car,will that detail even show up?
I like the look of these,but I am not an expert on what the details should be on this rim.
Are they authentic in every other way?
Rick

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Rick
I do not know how the original backside shape of the original wheels looked. You could however see the spoke area that is welded to the rim on a car if you looked close enough between the brake drum and the wheel rim itself.

A anal retentive restorer type would probably notice the spoke part of the wheel was welded to the rim and cry foul during concourse judging. The restoration taliban would imediately run over and beat the hapless fellow with rubber hoses whose only crime was running repo wheels and he would forever be kicked out of GTOodom and hence no 71 spanking new GTO's waiting for him in heaven.

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I'm sure most Supercar members worth their salt have found the current auction with the reproduction wheels. Here is a link for those who have not looked.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=10076

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Their not selling the wheels in that auction just the trim rings. Wheels can be bought outside of the auction!!!

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<font color="red"> This auction is for one set of 4 trim rings ONLY. They are 14-6 to fit factory Hurst wheels and our new reproduction wheels we've made. (Other pictures are for display purposes only). We also have manufactured caps and wheels, </font>

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Belair62,
Cap and trim rings are also new I believe. Wouldn't they look at home on a Yenko Deuce?

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A anal retentive restorer type would probably notice the spoke part of the wheel was welded to the rim and cry foul during concourse judging. The restoration taliban would imediately run over and beat the hapless fellow with rubber hoses whose only crime was running repo wheels and he would forever be kicked out of GTOodom and hence no 71 spanking new GTO's waiting for him in heaven.

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I agree 100%... but how do all these guys with the Summit Catalog American Racing Torq Thrusts on their Yenko cars get away with this? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] Outside of a select handful of cars, everyone seems to think it's perfectly acceptable to use these new style wheels on Yenkos and call them "Atlas mags". [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] These new repro Hursts at least look closer to the originals than those do! jmo.

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Joe from "the parts place" is reproducing them. He was at the jefferson swap meet selling them. I think they where about 1,500 for the set of four. Roger

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Seems like they compare with the repo mid-year Corvette knock-offs in price. Kelsey Hayes units go for 50-75% over the repo price. The repo wheel did not hurt that market. Actually made the real ones more pricey.

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Camarojoe
I agree with you. I wonder why so many Yenko's have the new style torque thrust. The old style straight spoke TT wheels made by any older vendor, American Racing, for instance look 100% better. They are not that hard to find. I see nice sets at the swaps/ebay for $600-800. If you are patient they will pop up.

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Stefano;
I agree, the Hurst wheels would look nice on a Yenko Deuce. Belky will probably put them on his latest deuce project, be nice to see how they look. Maybe that chrome look will jaz up the gobi beige [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Man they WOULD look cool on a Deuce! Marlin I think that Dave will be putting Crager S/S on the Deuce.

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Maybe, but wait till he sees these Hurst mags, he wanted to put them on his orange deuce. I think his orange deuce actually had them on at one time, early in it's life back in Ohio. I think owners of the second order of Deuces should consider them - with the Hurst connection and such.

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I wonder if He's paying Hurst for the right to make them.

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bbdon
He may be getting around the copyright by making the wheels slightly different from the original in shape or maybe not offering the center caps. I'm curious if he's using the Hurst name in his description. He also may have the rights to market the wheel. Who knows.

I wonder if this is how "Radir" wheels are doing their copies of the original "Rader" wheels. The wheels are sightly different from the originals in shape and also construction and they took out the e in the name Rader and replaced it with an i. I'm sure somone, somewhere, own the rights to the original Rader name and tools and it may be locked up legally.

Cragar wheels had a lawsuit against some of the other wheel companies (Rocket &amp; Appliance namely) back in the '70's over the SS design but lost because the wheels offered by those companies while looking very close had enough differnce in shape to be called different.

FYI Cragar SS was for Super Stock obviously. Appliance also called theirs SS but said it stood for "Super Spoke". Crafty Crafty!!

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I always thought it was Cragar Super Sports not Super Stocks [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

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so does Cragar:

http://www.cragar.com/history.html

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Don't know how I messed that one up. I'll take the way out most Americans do... It's not my fault. My dog jumped up at me while typing to cause me to lose my train of thought.
Can I sue my dog obedience trainer for causing this to happen? Their at fault of course, if they did their job this would not have happned.

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How big a dog we talken about. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Dave,
You had me doing a double take.

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I'm starting to worry about you Whitetop! I have an NOS set of Mickey Thompson wheels and caps that look like Raders...maybe Rader even made them for Mickey...I forgot what they are called for some reason...it could be the brownies Motown sent over !Where are you Mo...I'm starting to miss you..

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Belair62
I used to know the relationship between M/T and Rader but have forgotton it. I do know Sears and Roebuck sold either Rader or M/T wheels, not sure which one either.
Where did you end up getting your NOS set? They look good on cars from 63-66 era or street rods.

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Got the wheels a year or so ago on e-bay ....I have a set for Pontiac from Sears !!! Not sure who made them..M/T or Rader.