I realize this may be to late.But should help in the future.

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If the wires are the same color, put on a dab of your wife’s nail polish on the wire and where you took it off to match them up again. Use different colors for different wires of you have many of them.Coils are a funny thing. Like I said they can test OK as far as the resistance of the windings. but still fail when in use because of the heat. The…[Read more]

Roy

ray102012-03-30 14:20:42

Sometimes you just gotta say “WTF”?How many of you counted the spokes? I know I did. Seems to me sixteen sets of three spokes is a total of 48!Maybe it’s that “modern math!

Well, if someone buys those thinking they are 60 spokes, I guess they’ll probably pay him a 20 percent premium on their own bid price too. It’s only fair.

So I, being a semi professional eBayer, in an effort to help with his listing, wrote to the guy listing these wheels:

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  It is indeed a nice car and the front engined Classic Roadsters are pretty rare too. In the thread on wire wheels,it appears that they would cost about $2000. That gets the price down to a ”somewhat reasonable” figure if the car is as nice as the pictures show it to be. Besides ,the asking price is usually more than what it would take to…[Read more]

Info on the new gallery is in this thread:

ray10.  Realizing that you just paid a bunch of money for these new wheels, could you give us your opinions of them?  Can you tell who made them and where they were made?  They look like 100+/- spokes?  Roy

Bill, I get that also.  Just ignore it and go to the upper right and click on Photo Gallery.  Takes you right to it. 

Roy — I tried the old gallery site, but got only this error message:

Well got back in town and my friend came over and fixed th problem. 

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Nice looking car.

Here ya gohttp://www2.cip1.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1229

    I am thinking that to put on 5 lug chevy/ford pattern drums and then bolt-on wires would be more elegant and certainly make me feel safer than using adapters on our 4×130 hubs.  If you look at the backside of a 4x130VW hub they can not be easily weld filled and redrilled to Chevy/Ford 5 bolt pattern. 

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From MG Magic’s price list:Wire Wheel – Real Wire Wheels Set Of 4, Direct Bolt with Spinners, Ford Or Chevy (Chrome) $580.00Wire Wheel – Real Wire Wheels Set Of 5, Direct Bolt with Spinners, Ford Or Chevy (Chrome) $695.00A picture of the wheels is about half way down MG Magics home page in the left column. They are a more modern, almost lo-rider…[Read more]

Hi Smitty,Send me a private message if you are interested in contributing.Not sure what you mean about being able to download form your ipad. Download what?

I need to make a correction on the hook up of the vent line . the vent line hooks up to the gas tank and is ran along the drivers side frame rail with the gas line and brake line , it goes up to the fuel pump where it attaches to a gas line that goes up to the charcoal canister.

Well, crap. I can’t find my notes. But this was all recent and my memory is pretty good. So here’s what I found re wire knockoffs to be adapted to the 4-bolt VW:1. The most likely candidate for a legit kit that’ll maybe fit is the Triumph TR3/4 hubs with 4.5-inch Dunlop wires.I found them available at Rimmer Brothers for–here’s the link–about…[Read more]