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I was just offered 4 used (good condition) 5 1/2″ 8-Spoke Panasport or EMPI wheels. Local: $100 for all four. Gold spokes with 2 lug spinners. I’ve seen them and they are in good shape. I was not able to find a car with 8 spokes in the photo gallery. Any opinions on how they would look on my MiGi?
There was a member with nice car with those wheels and a roll bar. I think it’s a neat look, though those panasport/minilite-style wheels came in the ’60s and were not “period correct” for TDs.
Roy, Look in Carolina Bob’s photo gallery to see a TD with 8 spoke wheels. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Thanks Larry, I think that I will pick up the 8 spokers because they are pretty cheap and also because I can’t afford to even think about the wires that I would like. (I really don’t like my el-cheapo plastic wire hubcaps even though they do look pretty good.)
Ed, I have a question re wheels and Carlisle. I have not had a car in a show ever (mine were all drivers). My brother took and absolutely beautiful TR3 to a show once. He was penalized because the seats which were recently re-upholstered were not offered in the shade of blue that he used. He never showed any of his many cars again. I don’t think that I am interested in showing either as it would take some of the fun out of owning this little fun to drive auto. Regarding your period correct comment: you are of course correct that minilites are not 50’s.
Is there a list of acceptable mods for the kit cars? I’m still working on attending Carlisle. Do any of you guys enter the judging? Does anyone bring their wives/girlfriends/husbands etc?
Roy,
Don’t be put off by your brother’s experience. There are classes for everything from immaculate, period correct cars that have manufacturing paint and grease pencil marks reproduced on all NOS parts. The cars are paperweights. At the other end of the spectrum are street, regular driver and people’s choice classes. It depends on the show.
I once won 3rd in street at a show that I hadn’t entered. I parked my Avanti on the edge of the show lot and the street class judge liked it.
Peter
I’ll ditto Pete, Roy. “Period correct” is meant as wry humor here in replica-land. I am trying to make mine look as much like a TD as possible, but what I really like about my car is that I can, without guilt or shame, mod it any way I want. And we all can do likewise. You cut up an original TD and half the world hates your guts. These cars everybody likes, and the more personalized they are, the better.
As for those wheels, for that price I’d buy ’em. I think they’re $100 each new, on sale. If they don’t fit or you don’t like the look you can resell.
As for Carlisle judging: far as I know, everyone just goes for a showfield pass. I don’t think we’re judged–anyone know better?
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Guys, Thanks for your comments. They helped me make a decision. I brought ’em home, tried them on and decided that I did not like the look. I tend towards the classic sports car look. These wheels (in my anal opinion) transformed the appearance into a 60’s muscle car/hot rod. I’m gonna save my pennies and hope to come across some bolt on 4×130 15″ wires someday. I’m happy with my decision to pass on the 8 spokers.
Watch the skies, Roy. I’m in deep wire wheel research right now, so whether I succeed or fail I’ll let everyone in on the gory (and probably expensive) details.
If I wasn’t currently looking to do a wire swap I’d seriously consider a set of these steelies either from a Samba swap or from Cip1. At $50 each new they’re right-reasonable, guaranteed to fit and look different enough from the regular VW wheels to keep ’em guessing. I think they could be modded to fit the stock TD hubcaps pretty easily (a deceitful person could tell an inquisitor that the wheels were a rare Arnolt option) or one could fit a pie plate over the bolts, put some dummy acorn nuts on the pie plate and add a center cap and a two-bar spinner, making a facsimilie of an early disc knock-off wheel similar to the Rudge (several types went on Mercedes, Alfas [edit–the linked wheel is a Borrani] and Porsches) or Dunlop styles of the 1950s which went on the Jag D-Type and the MGA Twin Cam, among others…
‘Course, the Rudge knockoffs look most like the original 8-slot V-dubbers anyway, so you could just move from there if you wanted that look.
None of it’s “correct” for a TD but all of it looks “period” enough to start a conversation with anyone detail-oriented enough to notice the spinners and the lack of visible lug nuts/bolts.
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Ed, What would you think of 4×130 bolt on wires? I don’t remember ever seeing any but my VW restoration guy said that they were made. Probably all melted down for scrap now.
One of our guys has a set. I seen a 14-inch set on a cool old squareback too–supposedly off a Porsche.
Dayton Wires says they’ll make ’em if we want. Just takes money.
Pretty sure I’m keeping the old steelies for a few years more, at least.
The Carlisle Show Field is NOT judged. You will see all sorts of cars on the field, from rusted drivers to non-driven show cars.
Most of the attendees with the Speedster Group are “couples”. But not all. Purely your choice.
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
When is the Carlisle Show? I have a set of 4 Chrome and Gold Custom wheels I had left from a Drag car I had back in the 70’s, they made fun of the VW till they raced it on the 1/8 mile strip. Then they would not let me come back. It is a matter of what you like on a replicar, they are not MG’s or Porsche. I have a friend with a Design Classics 57 T-Bird / VW powered.
Carlisle is May 18, 19 and 20, with Saturday the 19th being the main day.
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
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