Hurst Mag Style Wheels

[camarojoe]

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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.

[resto4u]

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

[68TopStock]

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.

[whitetop]

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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[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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]

[hvychev]

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

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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.

[bbdon]

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

[whitetop]

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 & 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!!