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sixty9fasty Sat May 03, 2008 9:57 pm

Trying to decide whether I want to pick these wheels up and was wondering what brand they are and whats a decent price for them...

sharkskinman Sat May 03, 2008 11:08 pm

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=506303

Maybe

sixty9fasty Sat May 03, 2008 11:17 pm

well, i've been digging around and this has be believe they are appliance brand...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VINTAGE-APPLIANCE-M...dZViewItem


Dave Sat May 03, 2008 11:29 pm

I don't think Appliance made wide 5 mag wheels... the center caps all shared pretty much the same bolt circle, so you could have Cal-Parts caps on a Fenton wheel, Fenton caps on an American wheel, etc etc. They look to be either the ET or maybe Cal-parts brand, they might have a name embossed in the back, covered by years or road dust and grunge...

restojohnny Sat May 03, 2008 11:49 pm

If they are ET's they will have rivet's (2) on the inner bead per spoke with no name/marking's on it. The calparts will say "CAL PARTS" on the back of the rim with no rivets just an aluminum face pressed/welded together.

sixty9fasty Sun May 04, 2008 6:36 am

Haven't seen the wheels in person, so no chance to check the back sides yet..


Hmmm... well these are listed as cal parts


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=599694

Noticed the "spoked area" is not quite right where it meets the machined face...

They do appear to be close to these crestlines..


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=566356


except they don't have the rounded lip...

sharkskinman Sun May 04, 2008 12:24 pm

http://www.amayesing.com/wheels.htm






I think these are really cool too
didnt think there were this many Wide 5 wheels Damn...
Climax 'Continentals' (also known as a Walker wheel)-
and American Racing 'Baja Star' wheels

vwtony2 Tue May 06, 2008 10:49 am

aluminum centers, steel rims, no markings. Two are riveted at the spokes the other 3 are welded. all same offset and detail. these are about as much offset as I think I would want to build a car around!!!!


so........

this



plus this......




a little of this....



and a few more goodies to bolt up........ coming soon!!!!!



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