Hello Dean, you wrote:
>I have a set of chrome slotted steel wheels that came on my TR4 parts car.
>They have a hub cover with the letters "A/P" in a quasi-script font in the
>center (It is clearly not "A/R"). Also, the hub has a bunch of holes that
>I assume allowed fitting to a range of cars with similar bolt spacing, but
>different numbers of bolts. Finally, they are 14" wheels, which seems odd
>for a car that originally came with 15" wheels.
>
>My questions for the collective wisedom of the group:
>
>1) What are they?
Old Chrome steel slots
>
>2) Are they of any particular value? I know chrome plating is expensive,
>so I was considering sand-blasting them and painting them with a silver
>metallic paint.
Don't know about value
>
>3) Why would 14" wheels be fitted to a TR4? I remember hearing that 240Z
>wheels had the same bolt pattern as TRs, and I seem to remember that my
>'72 240Z had 14" wheels on it. Coincidence?
>
Why ? DPO strikes again. They should be 15"
>
>Dean Mericas
>1965 TR4 (CT37089L)
>1962 TR4 (CT2413L) A mere shadow of its former self
>
When I bought my TR-250 eight years ago, it had 14" alloys (MG type) on
it, and I could run it at an indicated 70 mph and be passed by nearly
all other traffic, thanks to the wrong wheel diameter. What's worse,
from the drive train's point of view, it WAS doing 70 !
Hope this is instructive,
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio
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