- 41. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: LBCarCoMail@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:36:38 EST
- As others have suggested there is the Silver Paint that Moss offers, but I think you are going to find that it is the same color the Dunlop or the Dayton wheels are. I have used it to touch up my wh
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00935.html (7,332 bytes)
- 42. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Phil <jello@ida.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:42:59 -0700
- As mentioned by others, I think you have the original color, so re-paintig freshly won't change anything. You have basically two choices - paint the wire wheels the color of the car - which I persona
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00938.html (7,632 bytes)
- 43. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Carl W French <cfrench@cybertours.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:57:15 -0500
- I do not know if you have an Eastwoods catatlog or not but they have several wheel colors because they cover the entire collector car hobby
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00947.html (7,147 bytes)
- 44. Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Tonyrose997@cs.com
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:22:27 EST
- I recently bought a '79 B. I am having trouble getting to the grease hub on the wheels. I have run into a seven point 9/16" bolt holding on the hub cover. I can't figure out a way to get this off. I
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00971.html (7,078 bytes)
- 45. Re: Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark and kathy LaPierre" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:13:28 -0600
- Take a deep breath and count to 10. Can you explain this in a little more detail. First off do you have knock off hubs that take the knock off wrench or are these after market wire wheels that bolt
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00974.html (8,064 bytes)
- 46. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:43:24 -0700 (PDT)
- Well, Mark, looks like I'll be keeping the discs on my 65 for QUITE a while...! -- Mark and kathy LaPierre <mgtrcars@cyberlink.com> wrote: == Dan D Dayton, NJ 76 MGB Tourer Driver - Brooklands Green
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00041.html (9,189 bytes)
- 47. Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Parker, Richard" <RPARKER@csuchico.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:48:43 -0700
- I'm looking for a set of 60-spoke chrome wire wheels for my MGA Mk II. Any idea what a nice set will cost if I shop hard for it? I'm not in a great hurry (having borrowed a set of wheels from a frie
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg01767.html (6,651 bytes)
- 48. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark and kathy LaPierre" <mgtrcars@cyberlink.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:59:32 -0500
- Here is a rough draft of my shopping reciept about a month ago for my 1500 MGA. Sit before you read. -Hubs $ 107. x 4 -Wheels $136. x 4 ( Dayton, painted, 60 spoke) - Tubes $ 10. x 4 - Tires, $ 40.
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg01790.html (8,292 bytes)
- 49. wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Rhbuxton@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:54:49 EDT
- Hi All, I have an early 74 MGB with wire wheels and like many of you I like the looks of them, but I want to swap them off for steel wheels! I am putting another engine in the car and am worried abou
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg01345.html (6,393 bytes)
- 50. Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Joel Woodard <joel-woodard@acck.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:37:39 CST
- I have a 1964 MGB with wire wheels. I have balanced and balanced, but at 60-70mph I still have a slight vibration. On the balancing machine, the wheels (all four) have a very slight wobble, so I thin
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00453.html (7,072 bytes)
- 51. Re: Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:41:10 -0800
- It is becoming difficult if not impossible to find anyone willing to true wire wheels. Current economics seem to make replacement the only option, which affronts my sense of propriety. The argument i
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00460.html (8,685 bytes)
- 52. Re: Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <Lundgren@iname.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:45:55 -0700 (MST)
- I called a local motorcycle shop on recommendation. Those guys were about as smart as your average rock. He kept asking my what kind of motor cycle it was after I explained serveral times that it was
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00463.html (9,698 bytes)
- 53. Re: Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:41:37 -0800
- My new copy of British Car has a notice for Hendrix Wire Wheels in Greensboro NC. Sounds like they are carrying on the proper tradition. www.inthetriad.com 336-852-8909 Joel Woodard had this to say:
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00493.html (7,710 bytes)
- 54. Wire Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:42:17 -0500
- I have 9 painted wire wheels, 5 with new tubes and tires, 1 with an older tire 2 with no tires and one for parts. all good rims hubs, all sand blasted and painted. the 5 with new tires are on my BGT.
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01150.html (7,031 bytes)
- 55. Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:41:27 -0500
- Am I the only one on the list who preferrs the look of painted wires instead of chromed ones? CR
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00973.html (7,176 bytes)
- 56. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Gordon Bird" <gobird@vbe.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:53:05 -0400
- Nope, I prefer the painted ones too, in a 60spoke, that I have yet to get!
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00980.html (7,578 bytes)
- 57. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin Sullivan <kevins@khoral.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:03:58 -0600 (MDT)
- No! Chrome wires are HORRIBLE! Kevin Sullivan kevins@khoral.com Khoral Research Inc. www.khoral.com/staff/kevins/mgstuff Albuquerque NM USA 1960 MGA "Baby" 1957 Magnette ZB "Pup" 1959 Magnette ZB "P2
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00981.html (7,749 bytes)
- 58. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Tim Nagy <nagy@duq.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:09:13 -0400
- no, a yellow CBB has to have chrome wires...don't know how I'll manage that, but that's just the way it should be...or covered in cat fur...
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00985.html (8,128 bytes)
- 59. RE: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:27:54 -0700
- I agree with you. On the 13 and 14" wheels I prefer the look of grey paint. I think the cars look a tad "overtarted" with chromes. That is definitely a VHO. I'm a little non-plused as the only chrom
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00986.html (8,921 bytes)
- 60. Re: Wire wheels (score: 1)
- Author: "Gordon Bird" <gobird@vbe.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:16:39 -0400
- You could just dip the cat in Castrol Super Clean.
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00988.html (7,432 bytes)
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