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Re: Knock-Off Wheels

To: "HFC" <froggi@cdsnet.net>
Subject: Re: Knock-Off Wheels
From: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 18:28:24 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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Reply-to: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>
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What page is this information on in Horler's book?  I've never been able to
find an actual date in his book when they were discontinued, either here or
in the home market; only that they were discontinued in the "late 60's".

Bob

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> From: HFC <froggi@cdsnet.net>
> To: spidgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Knock-Off Wheels
> Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 12:37 PM
> 
> Fellow Spridgeteers,
> 
> The employment of knock-off wheels, state side, was quite limited.  From
> my personal experience, the 1965 Corvette aluminum wheel option had
> ko's, my heavily optioned '67 roadster did not.  The wheels were
> visually the same, but the later cars bolted on in the conventional
> manner.
> 
> My MkIII Sprite, HAN8L-58497 and built between January and February
> 1966, has knock-off wire wheels.
> 
> To quote Terry Horler "Wire wheeled cars bound for North America changed
> from 'eared' spinners to octagonal nuts during 1966 to comply with
> safety regulations, effectively leaving only right-hand drive cars with
> 'eared' spinners."  And finally "...home market cars being the last to
> change to hexagon nuts in 1969."
> 
> WFO Herb
> 
> 
> 


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