How About Some Rim An Tire Pics With Specs

[lowroder]

Looking To See Whats Kool Out There On These Trucks An What Fits An What You Had To Do To Make Fit If Anything...
Im Building a 51 GMC LWB An Wanna Go 15'' WW But Not Sure On Sizes, or Offsets. Im Leaning Toward the 670-15 WW Look..With Soild Steelies

[mgchevyparts]

20" steelies with white walls looks cool.

[Highsider]

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=371870

[roger55]

16"X7" (6-hole) Wheel Vintiques smoothies painted Wimbledon White:



The tires are Bridgestone Dueler Alenza Plus in 235/70R-16.

I bought 5 wheels, tires, caps and rings because the spare is mounted on the bed side.

[Highsider]

Good looking paint on the rims, Roger.
Where does one buy the best quality rings? I want the deepest, richest-looking chrome job.

[roger55]

Originally Posted by Highsider

Good looking paint on the rims, Roger.
Where does one buy the best quality rings? I want the deepest, richest-looking chrome job.

I bought the Wheel Vintiques rings. They are stainless not chrome as I think all rings are.

[roger55]

Originally Posted by Highsider

Good looking paint on the rims, Roger.

Thanks. I painted the bumpers, grille and headlight bezels to match:

[Donaldo]

Those wheels look good wimbledon white even tho it's a f... color, putting 16x7 rallies in Bombay Ivory on ours, w/235/75/16 Firestone xl's, hopefully pics in a week or two -

[Sweet Willy]

Here's my '54 with 15X7 soothies, WW tires and 3" beauty rings all from Coker Tire in Chattanooga, TN. I live about 30 miles west of Chatt so I just drove over picked them up. Don't make the same mistake I did. Get your rims powder coated. Mine are starting to chip after 4 years. BTW, the baby moons are for a '53. The '54 moons had blue lettering and the '53 had red lettering.

[Highsider]

Originally Posted by roger55

I bought the Wheel Vintiques rings. They are stainless not chrome as I think all rings are.

I just ordered a set of WV from Summit. Thanks.

[roger55]

Originally Posted by Sweet Willy

Don't make the same mistake I did. Get your rims powder coated. Mine are starting to chip after 4 years.

What kind of primer and paint did you use?

I thought about having mine powder coated but decided to spray them with SPI epoxy primer and Summit acrylic urethane single-stage. I'm hoping they will hold up well. Single-stage urethane should be a pretty durable paint.

[FarmerSid]

I'd like to see some 18" smoothies and tires with a bit of side wall on an AD. I want my rears to be as wide as possible. Really like the moons on steelies.

[Sweet Willy]

Roger, I don't know what primer or paint was used. I left it to the guy who did my body work. Sorry about that.

[lowroder]

Cool Looks So Far... I like The WW Look. Im Thinking 670-15 With 15" Solid Rims.
Not Sure Of 15x6 or ? Or Offsets.

[oossuuu754]

I know they aren't factory look steelies but this is the look I am going for on my 53 Ridler 695 and Kumho ecsta packagae. I wanted more sidewall and was willing to give up and inch or so of height to get the meatier look I was going for.

[fisherman420]

what size wheel/tire combo is that? I agree that the meatier combo looks good on these trucks, too much rim just looks off IMO.

[lowroder]

Anyone Know If A 15x6 Rim With 4" Back Space Will Fit My 51 GMC? Im Looking Into These Rims http://cdn.cokertire.com/…/sol...-center…








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[dwcsr]

These are 17" x 8 , 8 lug tubeless with the original 1947 centers so we could use the original looking hub caps

[oossuuu754]

Originally Posted by fisherman420

what size wheel/tire combo is that? I agree that the meatier combo looks good on these trucks, too much rim just looks off IMO.

Here are the sizes. Gonna be a tight squeeze up front, hopefully we can make it work without rubbing.

[Highsider]

Here are my before-and-after shots as to why I needed beauty rings on chrome wheels. My panel sat in a SoCal orchard for many years and collected dirt and moisture on all the wheels. I sprayed the rust with POR before I put on the rings.
before with storage rust rings:


after, but ignore the reflection of the homeless man taking the photos:

[MIKEs50Chevy]

Originally Posted by oossuuu754

Here are the sizes. Gonna be a tight squeeze up front, hopefully we can make it work without rubbing.

Good luck, I thought mine Ridler 695s were tight and I'm running 245/45ZR18 and 275/40ZR20 tires. I've received quite a few comments about how tight they are but they don't rub. My truck isn't bagged either.

[Russell Ashley]

IMO it's hard to beat the look of Corvette rallies with wide whites. You can usually find a set pretty cheap too which is another advantage.

[lowroder]

I went with cragar black smoothies.. just gotta fiqure my rubber

[69CRUZR]

18s on the 53

[tattooedblue]

MB Wheel, Old School, Aluminum, Gloss Gray, 18.0 in. x 8.0 in., 4.5 in. Backspace in the rear with a 255/55/18

MB Wheel, Old School, Aluminum, Gloss Gray, 17 in. x 8.0 in., 4.740 in. Backspace in the front with a 225/50/17

Of course, like most above, not on stock suspension.
Would have liked to have gone wider, but prices were a big factor in the decision