I hear ya but sometimes it’s nice to see them on the road as they were. Especially wagons and trucks. Brings a smile every time.
You haven't mentioned what's under the hood, so what is it? Leave the outside the way it is and concentrate on making it go faster. Sleepers are always cool .
Just to be different Moon disc and pinwalls. As much as I like five spokes that has been way over done. Kinda like wide whitewalls on every thing.
Front looks fine ta me .... would raise the rear a few inches perhaps .. That said, is fine the way it is Ricky.
How 'bout Chrome reverse with redlines up front, cragar ss with blackwalls out back, something real cool about the mismatch on certain cars...... Photoshop a bunch of combos before you spend the money....
At the risk of inviting a crap storm upon my person... the coloring of the car is very sedate, and well frankly... shiny wheels will be cool but aren't, IMHO, going to jazz that car up a bunch. One other option, like an earlier photo showed would be put some wider rims on the car painted body color, with a lower profile black wall. That way the white around the bowties in the dog dish hubcaps will pop more. It will have a more muscular, sleeper look. Frankly I think shiny wheels look their best on darker colored cars/trucks and/or metallic paints. My next vote would be the chrome reverse, with bullet center cones shod with backwalls. Gotta56forme/Scott
I have never been a fan of Cragar SS. I'd look for some old school 5 spokes. American or not, as long as they are all aluminum and a matching set.
Can't go wrong with Cragars, it's what I grew up with, had them on my 57 BelAir. I had a friend with an ex drag 55 two door wagon in the early 70's, it had a red plexiglas see through hood scoop, and big/little Ansen Sprints. I had a 64 Malibu two door wagon with 15x4 Keystones on the front, he wanted that mismatched drag race look so we traded, I got his 15x4 Sprints. Those narrow Keystones are extremely rare nowadays but I'm thinking your wagon would look good with 15x7 fronts and 15x8's on the back. Seriously though, the two door wagons are a niche car in my eyes, so much so I don't even know where they fit best, so many possibilities for sure, make sense, I didn't think so.
I’d go chrome/whitewall but that’s me. On an O/T, I like to build balsa r/c kits but can’t bear to fly them.
In my area in the mid 60's a car like that would have been raised in the back, bigger rear tires. Black wheels, chrome lug nuts, bullet centers and one inch or thinner white walls. Any type of mag wheel would not have been on a wagon. Although the 2 door tri 5 wagons crossed the line on occasion
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