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Re: Wire Wheels, Just "Fishin"

To: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@icx.net>, Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Wire Wheels, Just "Fishin"
From: Brian Thornton <bthor@master.adams.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:39:05 -0400
Cc: Mark Endicott <endicott@nashville.com>, Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
In-reply-to: <37324C70.88E75E3E@icx.net>
References: <37322391.97FEF4F@nashville.com><37323C48.57BCEBE2@cisco.com>
Reply-to: Brian Thornton <bthor@master.adams.com>
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Adrian,

I've had a set of 13x5.5 bolt on Miniators on my MKIV Sprite for four years
now and I'm very pleased.  I mounted Michelin 175x70's on them and they in
turn improved the car's handling and ride.  The car is vibration free (at
any speed).  I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

Brian

AN9
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At 10:14 PM 5/6/99 -0400, J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
>I got my wheels from Moss and they are the Minators as well.  I got the
>bolt-on ones (not the knock off version) and they look really good and were
>reasonably priced.  Mine are 13X5.5s I think.  I ran into a woman at Pep
>Boys the other day and she had some of the knock off wheels from VB for an
>MGB and she had had some problems with them.  I think out of 4 she had to
>send three back for replacements.  Not sure if that's a VB thing or a
>Minator thing.  When I had tires mounted on my wheels, however, out of 4
>wheels they only had to put a small weight on one of them.  The others
>balanced out perfectly (with Michelin tires, of course!).
>
>adrian
>
>Scott Fisher wrote:
>
>> Mark Endicott wrote:
>> >
>> > I am thinking about the knock off Minilite reproductions.
>>
>> While we're talking about Midgets and alloy rims, anyone using the Moss
>> Panasport replicas from the current accessories catalog?  Any fitment
>> problems on round-arches?  I'm going to suffer through the Rostyles for
>> this year, but before next summer I can see myself splurging on a set of
>> those with suitably sticky rubber on them.
>>
>> --Scott Fisher
>
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>J. Adrian Barnes
>adrian@icx.net
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