I had a set of JA Pierce (JAP) MAGNA wheels. The MAGNA meant they
magnesium/aluminum. I sold them to Uncle Wally who used them on his
autocross Alpine. He loved the wheels and knew quite a bit on their
history. I wish he had written it down. Tiger Tom has two sets. One on
his race Tiger and another on trailer which towed it. Log at the picure
of his Tiger towing a Tiger. You'll see the Magna's
I found a set of plastic chrome caps from American racing. I pealed the
decal off and weather strip glued them to the wheel. The I wrote CAT
and got 4 deals, Cut out the center and stuck them to the caps. Wally
said the glue held great and he never lost a cap. TT was always after
where he got the caps.
Used the money to buy my LAT-9s.
--- On Wed, 5/19/10, wsamouce <wsamouce@kc.rr.com> wrote:
From: wsamouce <wsamouce@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] ARE Libre wheels
To: "'David Sosna'" <sosnaenergyconsulting@cox.net>, tigers@autox.team.net
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 6:46 PM
Hey David,
I believe I have the non-magnesium wheels. Some time back I came across
info on the JAP wheels and mine did not have the markings of the racing
magnesium wheels. It a good thing as I am able to still use them.
I sure would love to find some center caps. I have spinners right now but
would like to have the original center caps. Do you have some that you can
take a picture of as I don't even know what I am looking for?
Duke
-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of David Sosna
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:25 AM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] ARE Libre wheels
Hi Duke:
My Tiger also came with a set of JAP wheels--Tiger's gone, but the
wheels remain. One of 'em has a small crack, and I've not been able to
find someone locally who will weld it for me--it's magnesium or
magnalume or some such, and they're concerned it'll catch fire and do a
china syndrome since magnesium provides it's own oxygen for burning.
The wheels are really light, but there were some concerns expressed on
the list about the strength of 40 year old magnesium ( I gather it rots)
and the wisdom of actually having them on the car for daily use, so I'd
replaced 'em with steelies. Looks like yours are holding up well, though.
I like the pattern. I saw a picture of a Healey 3000 with a set, but
until you mentioned it, I didn't know of anyone else with a set, so they
must be pretty rare.
:-)
Best Regards
David Sosna
wsamouce wrote:
> I have JAP wheels on my Tiger and many think they are ugly as hell too.
>
> Each to their own as the maid kissed the cow.
>
> Duke
> B382002037
>
>
>
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