Does anyone know of a wheel company that mates the Pinto wheel center with a 13 x 7 rim? 10 years ago they were all over the place, makeing wheel with your center and their rim. Now none of them are in business or they don't do 13" wheels. CD wheel in Denver / Fast Wheel in Tulsa / SW Wheel in Dallas were three that I used in the past. Help me out for some old school wheels.
I think Dunk57 got the last set...
We had a wheel place here in Portland that would do it unfortunately they went out of business about 5 years ago. I had them make a set of stock wheels for my Mustang. I was told they sold all their stuff to Stockton Wheel which I think is still around.
Stockton wheel doesn't offer 13" wheel. I've been told that product liability killed off all but the real big ones. Maby I'll just go 5 lug and open up a entire new world.
i had a set of 13 x 7's made for mine a LOOOOOONG time ago(1971) but the company has been out of business for at least 20 years. they were a brand new wheel at the time using new stock centers & new custom rims. i used the stock pie-pan hub caps and had the wheels painted dark green metallic to match the car. it looked bitchin'
they had a 1" negative offset (that's 4.5" backspace) and i had some 185/70 hr-13 pirelli's stretched over them
take a look through the Hemmings Motor News magazine in print or on-line. you may have some luck there
Quote from: dick1172762 on November 16, 2007, 01:21:29 AM
Does anyone know of a wheel company that mates the Pinto wheel center with a 13 x 7 rim? 10 years ago they were all over the place, makeing wheel with your center and their rim. Now none of them are in business or they don't do 13" wheels. CD wheel in Denver / Fast Wheel in Tulsa / SW Wheel in Dallas were three that I used in the past. Help me out for some old school wheels.
try these guys:
http://www.custombuiltsteelwheels.com/
or these guys:
http://www.trudesignwheel.net/specialty_wheels.html
Are you looking for 7" wide wheels that the original hubcaps will fit? Im running 13" x 6" 3" offset Aero mini-stock wheels on my wagon. Thier steel wheels but not stock appearing. If you want I could try a stock Hubcap on one to see if it would work! Just let me know.
What I'm looking for is a 7" wide rim with a stock Pinto wheel center mated together. I plan on useing 1960 type dog bowl caps like baby moons.At one time I had 6 of these, but sold them with a Pinto. What did you do on the Aero wheels to use 1/2" studs with the Aero 5/8" holes? I can buy the Aeros at the local speed shop cheap. I may just do that and forget the hub caps.Cutting the centers out of the stock wheels is easy on a lath, but I have no idea where to get the 7" wide rims with out a center.
Slammed them on there with the stock lug nuts with an air-wrench!!!!! Actually I dont remember the holes being 5/8" on mine and I just had them off this week putting new tires on it. Ill check that tommorrow and let you know what size the holes are. My studs are stock 1/2" so now youve got me wondering................
PS. If you want an Idea of what it would look like I can post a pic. They are on my 73 Wagon that I did as a sort of mini-stock replica for the car in my avitar. It even has a ghost 22 on the doors full size!
Which side of the wheels was the valve core hole on? I've seen Aeros with the valve stem on the back side. Their NASCAR Cup wheels have both holes.
Valve core is on outside of wheels just like a stock wheel. Forgot to take a lug off yesterday but heading over to garage now so ill check the hole size and reply tonite!
SORRY it took so long but I ended up having to go to Missiouri and a bunch of other things but anyway........... Mine have the 1/2" holes in them. Ive been running them for a year and a half now with no problems whatsoever. I guess the only down side is from being a deep dish wheel it throws gravel up on the fenders and chips the paint!