It's HEMI time !!! Compliments of NJSteve

[njsteve]

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Thanks Charley. Steve's wheels are the original one-piece cast aluminum type. His also have the original hex-shaped center caps. The current "200S" wheels have a stamped steel rim and cast centers.

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Very observant of you Those are 1970 dated wheels with the 1970 twin, half-circle, logo center caps. American racing changed to a different logo in 1971. I recently picked up a set of NOS center caps from AKH Wheels for about $20 apiece. I always thought the logo colors were black and silver. It turns out mine had faded over the years from the original red and royal blue!

[427TJ]

Yeah, I've been crazy about those wheels for years. In the mid-70s a guy on my paper route had a '70 Boss 302 that had American 200S wheels, 15x7 front, 15x8 back. He ran the original Radial T/A 50s that said "Radial T/A 50" on the sidewall and it had a mean rake. The car had the look of the Bud Moore Trans Am racers. I'd always stop and gawk at that car and especially the wheels. That's how I learned to ID them, sitting on the sidewalk at 13 years old and staring at that Boss parked at the curb.

Oh, and when I first saw the Musclecar Color History book on the Hemi with your '70 on the cover with those wheels I flipped. Yep, bought the book on the spot.

I still think you should have a set of 'Dick Landy' skinny Cragars to swap on once in a while... Perhaps some NOS 7-9" slicks out back?

[newguy]

Super sweet Charger (my second favorite car) and even better stories. I could read those kind of stories all day long, and they are even better with a good ending

[njsteve]

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I still think you should have a set of 'Dick Landy' skinny Cragars to swap on once in a while... Perhaps some NOS 7-9" slicks out back?



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If you check out the original photo attachment showing the car when I first laid eyes on it, it has the very Cragers you're talking about. Unfortunately they were too rusty to reuse and I gave them away. It did look really evil with the skinnies up front and the big Firestones in the rear. At the time it also had tow tabs welded on the front bumper brackets.