<VV> Need Help Understanding This

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:34 PM 1/12/2012, Dennis Pleau wrote:
>I think Jay Eitel (sp) who made the V12 powered Corvair also mad adapter
>rings so he could put stock hub caps on 14" wheels.  This is a product the
>Corvair vendors might want to look into as 13" tires in the right sizes are
>almost gone!
>dp




A long time ago my old bud Don Keesey had some odd tires on the back 
of his '64 Max-Wedge Fury and wanted to use the factory wheel covers 
on the car (maintain the sleeper appearance) although the crazy-wide 
tires he had on the back were 15s and the factory covers were 
14s.   The foot wide Marsh race tires mandated the deep 15 inch 
wheels since the tires in question weren't available in 14s.


Off to a machine shop, a talk with the bud's friend, and the 
sacrifice of two 14 inch wheels later, and the 14 inch wheel covers 
fit the 15 inch wheels.   The outer rim of the 14 inch wheel was cut 
off in a big lathe, trimmed to fit, carefully welded onto the 15 inch 
wheel.   Looking at it from 10 feet away you couldn't tell the 
difference.   The custom white walls painted onto the tires combined 
with the fender skirts on the car spelled pure sleeper until he 
started the car.   The car's tweaked 426 Max-Wedge engine announce 
its presence and the 3" exhaust wasn't that quiet either.




There's no reason a 13" wheel couldn't be cut the same way and the 
cut-off outer rim welded onto a 14" wheel.   Now, if you wanted to 
hang '60-'61 dogdishes and trim rings on a 14" wheel, you might need 
to work some sort of angle around the dogdish cap unless you somehow 
managed to find some 14" wheels with the nubs and dimensions to hang 
the dogdishes.    But early Monzas, should be no problem.



tony..