Hot Rods GOOD LOOKING WHEELS FOR A 56 F100

i NEED TO CHANGE WHEELS on my 56...aany ideas???

 

Truespokes have always looked great on effies!

 

Full caps also help change it up when you get bored. Im currently hunting for new ones on the 53 I picked up.

 

looks fine to me

 

Put bias plys on it with those wheels and it will look different.

 

COOL!

 

IMHO, it looks the way it should, it's a great look.

 

the wheels are total wrong... looks like the rear end was too wide so they custom made the off set... the rims stick out to the fender edge and are 10'',,, then too small of a tire for the rim , but if you go to a wider tire... they will rub... bugs me to look at..but the correct fix is to change the rear end...not a real lot of work beings it's leaf spring.... wonder whats the correct one that bolts in??? probley stock.... did 56 come with a 9''???

 

I don't like riding on the sidewall going down the road... not bad on sand... the sidewall is too thin

 

question for all of you that own a complete craftsman tool set...how come so many of you put the rear end in the car... then try to find wheels that fit... and how come you put a rear thats too wide.... just because thats the one you got???on my 32 roadster... same problem....wanted traditional wheels.. but rear was too wide... On my 32 chopped 5 window.... I wanna take the fenders off and go hi-boy...wanted to do salt flat type wheels...bias tires.... but every time I look at it... I walk away....opening up a can of worms pulling the fenders... just looking I'm saying the rear is too wide....It's a chopped 5 window that everybody thinks is glass cause the chop is perfect...it has glass fenders that are going...but I think the fenders are 2'' wider than stock... and the wheels still stick out..... so it justs sits as is.. for now.. would like to go the Bonniville racer look....but guessing the rear will have to be swapped...my wifes says...it runs good... leave it alone.... I say I can't drive it around looking like it does.....she said..." why not... you can't see the wheels when you are driving it?"


oh... and it has 5 soke americans with spinner knock offs...pretty sure thats OT... so no more pics till it's done..

 

The default answer is always: American Racing Torq Thrust

 

American 200S with as-cast spokes and lightly polished rims

 

Hard to argue with the boss when she sees you can't see em when your driving, but I am right there with you on fitment. I think most folks are scared of slicing up a rear end, so they run what's close enough.
Unfortunately I don't think you'll be happy until you either cut or swap out the rears on both rides.
That said, narrow salt flats with very little backspacing on your coupe (as a high boy) might look just fine. The gap between body and tire shouldn't be that bad.

 

I saw a pic of one on Torq Thrusts recently. Wasn’t a wheel I’d consider but they actually looked really good.

 

Chrome reverse 49 Lincolns , 5 on 5-1/2, 6” wide, with Mercury hub caps.

‘these wheels, plus the Mercury hub caps.

 

White wall tires will completely change the look!

 

Hello,

Wow, that chopped stance is almost the same as the first custom truck in the Westside of Long Beach back when I was about 10 years old. We had just moved to a new (our last house until 1998) old house that was built in 1946.

My Brother's 1951 Oldsmobile sedan is in the garage space, as our dad had already gone to work.

We moved into this house as our old Craftsman style house was demolished to make room for the large new elementary school. The numbers of new kids in the area demanded the new elementary school be built on the exact block of our old first house. Today, the school is closed as the age group is gone and no families with school age children will go to that school. The remaining enrollment will be spread out to the other schools nearby. So, planning for a new school demolished the homes for a school and it remains closed due to declining enrollment 70 + years later.

One thing happened for our move. We stayed in that second house past college and our mom stayed in the house until 1998. Many years of adventures started there and today, the house has its own stories, much like ours up to 1998. When we walked to the nearby shops, they included a small popular grocery store, an jewelry store, a bakery and liquor store a block away. But the one thing was an optometrist shop that supplied most of all the glasses worn by families in the Westside of Long Beach.

But, not only was he an optometrist, he was a hot rod person. He built the only custom 1956 Ford Truck in all of the Westside area. It was one of the only custom trucks in So Cal. It probably was in a few magazines in the L.A. area, although the owner was not a part of the “hot rod/custom car scene.” He enjoyed cruising and he parked his custom Tahitian Red/Candy Apple painted 56 Ford Truck in front of his shop for all to see. Yes, it attracted customers to his shop, as if he needed it. He was one of the only optometrist's shops for miles and very convenient for school children/families nearby.

(Yes, our family had glasses from that shop, all except for me… I did not need glasses until several years ago. Ha!)

The truck was lowered, painted a Tahitian Red or Candy Apple Red, had chromed reversed wheels, side pipes and it had all white tuck/rolled upholstery completed just down the street in a small Westside shop.

The one thing that made it stand out was the chopped top. Nice stance of the overall truck profile.

It looked almost like this truck by @123 if one were to repaint the white top Tahitian Red or Candy Apple Red, put on some chromed reversed rims and raise the back slightly for an attention grabbing rake stance, then, it would be a moment in time. The chopped top was not the straight, level chop of several inches. It was cut to allow more clear space when viewing out of the front windshield, without feeling pushed down like most chopped tops.

The white tuck and roll was done in a small shop down the street behind a neighborhood Mobil Gas Station.

Jnaki

It was out in front of the optometrist shop for as long as I could remember. In time, he moved to another building on the other side of the Los Angeles River and the L.B. Freeway. From that time on, the truck more or less disappeared and what is left of the family, has no clue as to the whereabouts of the custom truck from the 50s. YRMV

Note:

For all of the magazines we read or saw up to the time we quit drag racing, the custom truck may have been in a magazine or two. We never saw it presented in a magazine, although it may have. It was during the time of small Rod & Custom Magazine and of course the whole larger, hot rod/custom car mags, too.

Any one recognize the unusual chopped top truck from the 1950s-60s?

 

Here's a couple. Late 60's, their was a guy who brought a '56 back from Oklahoma when discharged, to our little burg. White with polished aluminum slots. What a clean, cool ride!

 

You answered your own question. Swap the rear with an appropriate width one, then add wider rear wheels and tires. The truck currently has the look that all 4 tires are the same size.

You're correct that the current rear tires are about 3 sizes too narrow for those rims. That's a pet peeve of mine too. I've never understood the attraction of stretching narrow tires onto wide rims, where you have 5" tread width on an 8 inch wide rim and the tire beads barely look seated.
Tire tread width should be at least as wide as the rim. If you drive up against a curb, the contact should be the sidewall center not the edge of the rim.

 

luv'n the fat tire look

 

it's just wrong and will never be right... won't know how wrong till I pull the rear tires and start measuring...but looks like some on ordered the most positive back space they could get and it still wasn't enough so they just went smaller tires

 

I put Centerlines on my '54... HUGE MISTAKE!

 

These are very early Aussie made C&D’s I had on my F100 about 20 years ago.

 

No pictures, but my Dad ran 1949 Mercury wheel cover and hub caps on his truck! I thoght it looked great. Here’s the truck, we just pulled it out of the barn a couple of months ago!




Bones

 

I gotta do something different with my 56. It is painted now (Meadow green) and looks sorta like a clown car with the red wheels. It looked really good with them red when it was in "patina", but now it is too much...

 

here's what I ended up with... I kinda like it...

 

I really like the old style ET "mags". But not easy to find in 5X51/2.

 

have you tried beauty rings??? some times it really tones them down....also the photo shop guys...

 

I had a hell of a time getting any wheels.. the rear can only have 3 1/4' neg off set and they are 5 on 4.5 bolt circle... that and they need to be 29/30'' tall tires..