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ROGER LAWLESS
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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: Early type 3 rims.. |
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Does anybody have any pictures and descriptions of early type 3 rims? 
Were they 'smoothies' like the bug? I need a pair because they are wider. Are they 1/2" or 1" wider?
I already have one later wide 5 for type three with all the holes around the rim but I don't want that style.
Thanks for your help.
Roger
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notchback
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Early type 3 rims.. |
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| ROGER LAWLESS wrote: |
Does anybody have any pictures and descriptions of early type 3 rims?
Were they 'smoothies' like the bug? I need a pair because they are wider. Are they 1/2" or 1" wider?
I already have one later wide 5 for type three with all the holes around the rim but I don't want that style.
Thanks for your help.
Roger |
You current question was pretty much answered by your previous question:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=144106
When you say you have a "later wide 5" with "all the holes", you are referring to the '66 & '67 bug rim. Not type 3 at all.
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ROGER LAWLESS
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: type three rims |
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 Well maybe you are right but why is one of them 5" and the other 4.5" wide?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: type three rims |
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| ROGER LAWLESS wrote: |
| Well maybe you are right but why is one of them 5" and the other 4.5" wide? |
Could they be wide-5 porchse rims with the slots?
I think all stock Type 3 rims were 4.5" wide.
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60DoubleTurd
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Talking about this without pictures is like pissing in the wind....not too brite...get some pics up and we'll let you know what you have......
Here is a 61-63 slotted wheel...15x4.5
Here is a 64-65 solid wheel.....15x4.5
Thats all the 5 lug wheels for a type 3. Thanks for shopping!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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the way you measure a wheel, all wheels, is between the 'lip' of the wheel, where the bead of the tire seats.
heres a webiste with a rundown on wheel measuring:
http://www.rsracing.com/tech-wheel.html |
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ROGER LAWLESS
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: Type 3 rims |
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OK I'll take a couple of pics of the 'two' rims that I have. Including tape measuring them. 
Years ago I rememberd another VW bug friend who had wider rims and I asked where he got them and he stated that' theyre off of a type three. 
I actually found a pair for the rear of my car, back then. I think it was a 68. Maybe that was the difference.  Four lug.
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