Vintage Wheels

[budnate]

D, I think you want to use that acid wheel stuff we use on the Satin Drag Centerlines..and a tooth brush,,is it not a Eagle product???

might be a good idea to tape off the lip with the special blue masking tape first so you dont loose the sheen you have

[Verne_Frantz]

I'm not sure if anyone put up one of these yet. From Jan. '65 PHR



If you look closely at the hub of the spinner you can see that the tapered edge is rather wide. This is the Rader style. Most spinners that M/T produced had a much narrower edge. Go to the M/T Rader wanted ad and compare to the pic of the wheel on my car. Just another dumb piece of trivia....

Verne

[Verne_Frantz]

For comparison: here are the most common M/T spinners. The tapered edge is smaller than the Rader style. I've never actually seen the style of the one in the ad above, unless it said Rader.



I've found a few other nice vintage ads for more wheels that I will try to post later. It seems that 1965 was a boom year for the industry. New "mag" wheels came out of the woodwork everywhere!

Verne

[Verne_Frantz]

Here are some more interesting ones, all from June '65 PHR

Never heard of these guys at all. I think they were probably selling other people's wheels.


Here's another fly-by-nite outfit.



Here's a nice masculine name for you. Somehow I don't think it helped them sell any wheels, because I've never seen one. They have a "flavor" of a Keystone Kustomag, but I guess they just didn't catch on.



A name we all know, but wheels that seem a little strange.



I'm sorry, but I just had to throw this in. This was on the back cover of that issue and it's just too good to pass up.

[bkhpah]

Saw these at the recent Goodguys show in Hershey PA. They looked to be a one piece design including the center cap. Any ideas what they are?...BKH

[bkhpah]

Holy cow, my first picture on the site....BKH

[Xplantdad]

Good for you Brian. Now we have got to work on you putting them in the post...

[MosportGreen66]

Just picked this little bad boy up... Keystone Catalog ala 1967... I love these color shots!

[sixbrl440]

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Here's another fly-by-nite outfit.

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Bob Creitz a "fly-by-night?" I hardly think so. Very impressive machine shop. Had the first dyno in the area. Still in business here in Tulsa: "Creitz Automotive."

I don't work for him, nor am I soliciting anything. He did a lot of work for me and I was always thrilled with the results of his work/products.

[Verne_Frantz]

I meant that he didn't appear to be in the wheel business very long. Didn't mean to take away any credit he deserves for his other work, but in the history of vintage wheels, his were more of a flash in the pan.