Western Wheels on a hot rod?

I've come across what I understand to be called Ford Western Wheels. They have a Ford hubcap and would look good with some pie crust slicks. Does anyone know if theyre period correct for a traditional rod, or have any pictures of some on a hot rod? Of course I used the search function but no results. Are they called somehing else? I'll post the pic once I get it. Thanks for any help.

 

waiting for pix

 

Late 70s-80s.

 

They are just wrong for a traditional hot rod! HRP

 

dont think so

but thats JMO

 

I was going to post that till I saw your post!!!!

Maybe a Torino also...Oh hell put em on your Hotrod and post pics! Lets see!!!!!!

 

They called them "Western Bullits" not traditional.

 

Haha! So basically someone will walk up and think "Why the hell did this guy put van wheels on his Tudor?"

I saw a guy clean up some Keystones and put white walls on them and they turned out nice. So I figured with the caps these have they'd be decent. They're 14x7 and 15x8.

 

But you guys answered my question, thanks!

 

If the spokes are thick enough cast aluminum, dig out your rotary burrs and round the edges over. If you can give them a nice, half-round look then paint them, they'd look something like a set of Jumbos or at least pseudo-artilleries (and with less unsprung weight too).

Steve

 

Too much work for me. But I agree they do resemble an artillery type wheel, and paint would change the look for the better.

 

With Starsky and Hutch Stripes!

 

have someone photoshop them on your Tudor and see..

 

Excellent idea. I'm actually posting all of this from my phone and it was difficult attaching the picture. I don't have a decent picture of mine on my phone. Maybe I can tonight. Unless someone wants to post it in the PhotoShop thread for me?

I think if the rims were black they'd look better........

 

Remember the Turbine wheels? Looked like the westerns with narrower spokes and lots more of them.

 

Actually look at any 70s SRM, they were pretty popular used. But then again so were the wooden spoked "mags"

 

So were the Western Cyclone's

 

First thing I thought of when I saw them... I was thinking late 60's

 

Regardless they only belong on an 88 Chevy conversion van like my folks had.................awesome prom ride.

 

Western was a manufacturer of wheels and made several different types of wheels. Yours was briefly popular on street rods in the very late seventies and very early eighties. The owner of Western wheels was John Siroonian, and he owned one hell of a collection of deuces, as well as a couple of AMBR winners in the late seventies. There is a picture of his Phaeton in TRJ #36 at the seventy fifth anniversary of the deuce.
This info seems new enough to me that it should be common knowledge and not history, but then I remember I bought my Bullets that briefly were on my Falcon almost thirty years ago! Time flies...

 

Like these

 

No, the predecessor to the Suburban/Escalade soccer mom ride in the 80s. Conversion van, ugly vynil graphics, TVs. Big cushy captains chairs,

 

LMAO!!!! I'm thinking A-Team. I'd drive the shit out of one of those vans tough. Blast from the past.

 

need louvers - you beat me to it!

The late John Siroonian was one of the first large collectors of exquisite hot rods and he bought this roadster back
in the '70s (though its history as a racer goes back to the '50s) before turning it over to Don Thelen's Buffalo Motor
Cars, who turned it into an AMBR winner at the Grand National Roadster Show in 1981.​

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Here's a pic of Siroonian's tub (1 of the "75 most significant Deuces"):


image by Don Dillard (DRD57)

 

I wasn't even a thought thirty years ago!

 

Gloss black, chrome center cap, and whitewalls... they'll look ok!

 

Wow! Beautiful is the description. I believe my salt flat style rims are Western Wheels. Would they be stamped as such if they were?

 

I think steve's idea has potential. Would prefer smooth or "V8" caps over the blue oval ones though...

 

Didn't know Siroonian owned Western, thanks for the info CHip.