The " think hard" picture request...

I'm going to weigh in on this deal 'cause it's kinda on my thread. I don't think it's NOT that it's not been done, it's kinda that maybe it shouldn't have been done. Just my opinion. It looks pretty hoky MOST of the time. The only opposite case I can think of where it just flat looks right is the "Little Coffin" showrod from the early sixties. It also seemed to be a regional thing too. More midwest and East coast than West. I'm the first to admit that wide whites are just not my cup of tea... They do seem to look damn good with full moon caps though. Like I said, my opinion. In either case, this thread isn't about wide whites anyway.

 

Sorry. I didn't mean to divert your thread. Slotted mags on a Falcon Ranchero with black walls would look great. White walls be they wide or narrow, to me, wouldn't look right. Slotted mags have been around since the mid 50s but were mainly on compe***ion cars. As much as they were desired not everyone could afford them. Had I a Falcon Ranchero and slotted mags they would be on there in a flash.

 

Is that a arrow on the hindquarters (small screen)?

Personally on second thought I would do whatever I could to hide the "four-lug" situation ... maybe a phoney knock-off with a collar ... anything, the four-lugs just look "low-performance" ... just my opine.

 

See that's the thing. It isn't all about performance with this trucklet. Yes it will have three carbs and a five speed, but it is going together not as a racey racer, but as a cruiser and hood hauler for my business. With the Falcon subset it's not considered bad or low perf to leave the four lug deal in situe. This takes me right back to where my "build for the most H.P. and best handling" mindset is getting me in trouble.

Everybody has opinions about whites be they narrow or wide, I was just hoping to see some evidence that this happened somewhere (hopefully L.A. area) at one point in time or another. Then the idea was take some cluesfrom the rest of the cars in the pictures and figure out a dirrection. I have alway seen tons of Cragar S/Ss and things with narrow whites, can't believe that slots didn't get the same treatment. It's not looking good at this point though....

 

There is a reason your not finding this combination, then and now. (1) It would look good only on a few rides. (2) the sheeple were following/influenced by what they saw. Not by what they could imagine, let alone follow through with. Just do it. You can always turn the white in, or sell them.

 

I'm begining to believe that your right on this. I have kept seeing this combo in my minds eye, but trying to remember where... Figured it out last night! In sixty eight my dad bought my mom a brand new T-Bird four door, silver with the suicide rear doors. Drove it off the lot on university in St.Paul and over to his shop on Snelling where it got a brand new set of Ansen sprints with... Wait for it... Narrow whites! Oh, and some spring t******* to drop it a touch. There it is in my own family's picture album! The only probem is that it's late enough to be O/T here... Baahhhh!

 

What we did back in the day. I left them alone to reflect what we did with them. I know it doesn't fit today's style but it is what we did in my area back in the dark ages.

 

I have found one pic of a car with slotmags and narrow whites.

Its a brown Mustang II.

And in a brown Mustang II kind of way, it doesnt look so bad.









Dont build a brown Mustang II...

 

Alex, as I said above I knew that I had seen this combo some where, I just didn't think it was in my family album. Now that I know it's off topic and I didn't get one picture, I'll stop beating this dead horse.

Without being too lippy, I would hardly compare my dad's very mild custom efforts with a brown mustang II. The car was about as "top of the line" as far as mild customs in the area it was in, it was just off topic for here.

All I was looking for was evidence of this being done, not the okay to do it.

 

Not exactly slot "mags", just real mags, and not exactly a rod...............but it was a working show car.

 

But if you "see it", think it's gonna look good, you'd be best to go for it. In my mind's eye, I see it being done to bling up a desireable car (trucklet, as you called it). Suppose someone had one for a push car on the dry lakes? How about a parts chaser for a hot rod shop, or a working car for a louver shop? Oh wait, it already is

Hey man, I can smell what you stepped in. The look would be fine. I checked all the Federal Highway Standards and it's legal to put whites on aluminum wheels. I tend to avoid doing "what's expected" if I like how I feel looking at it. I was once told I was insane for putting 2-tone orange stripes on my blue and silver F-250. "That's gonna look like ***!!" Once done I was asked which colors that OEM stripe kit was. "I might do my blue and blue truck like that. It blends right in with side markers."

Just sayin, and we better see pics dammit!!

 

ive seen all types of polished aftermarket mags used with whitewalls dont care for the look but if you take into concideration that the owner might be broke and at the momment the tires were all he had laying around it makes it more understandable

i know they arent hamb friendly but i like raised white letters on aftermarket wheels

blackwalls are ok but not my real cup of tea

for me narrow whitewalls look best on factory painted steel wheels with some sort of hubcap

and wide whites only look good on cars from 54 and earlier

 

Sorry, man.

I didnt mean anything by it...

I just was intrigued by the question, so I went looking for it.

And thats the only one I found.

I was surprised that it actually looked pretty good.
( factory Ford 13" slotmags, narrow whites, stock rideheight, factory Brown metallic paint.
Just a nice resto, and a timewarp in its own right...)
If you Google "slotmags whitewalls" you'll find it.

 

No insult intended Alex. Thank you very much for taking a moment to look it up for me. I'm thinking I might just give this a shot and see what the heck it looks like for real.

 

I'd just rock some white letter Wide Ovals and a crazy red/gold "panel" paint job with a shop logo if it was me. The late 60s/early 70s weren't all bad.

 

Where did you get those front tires?!!!! Those look awesome!!

 

I get amused at people who post questions about how things used to be done like its some kind of archeological hunt for "evidence". Maybe I am old, but it really wasn't that long ago. Just yesterday in old folks time.....

 

I must be against the crowd bit I think the slots with the knock-offs, and "pinner" whites would look cool on a Trucklet! I put pinner whites on a 64' Dodge dart wagon custom/lowrider and I was real happy with the look. It didn't have slots but some custom caps instead.

 

this is what the hamb is about.


I enjoy thinking about the old ways, and LOVE to hear from other hambers that lived all around the planet on what they saw or did.

 

Tire store.....haha.......but really....they are Shinko motorcycle tires...

 

I LIKE EM

 

One more time, this is not a wide whites thread. No offense intended, but I'd like to see what the OP is asking for. So, to contradict myself slightly I'm going to post something he is not exactly asking for... but they are in the spirit of the original request. Just pretend these are highly polished aluminum slots, not chrome steel.



And a wheel ad with plenty of skinny whites on "mags" just no slots.

 

****! why didn't I think of that! The Watson thread!

 

Thin whites were super thin in 65 or 66.. Like the one closest to that kids left heel in the ad above. The thinner ones might look better on the Watson car.

 

O/T, but did anybody else notice the full on EMPI bug across the street?

 

Louvers, OT or not, I would love to see a pic of your parents T-Bird to get an idea of what you are talking about. Post away.

 

Yep. The Firestones on the upper left of the Cragar ad are the ones I was yakking about earlier. They would rock on some slots too I believe.

I'd also like to see a pic of that T-Bird!

 

Love Falcons...WOW - that's a cool find. Gotta be rare(?).
I recently saw a set of those in 14" - 4 lug for the first time.

They are on a parts car 4-door that is for sale,
but the guy really doesn't want to sell the rims separately!

The rears sit nice.
He did not know the measurements, but the rears look wider (6"?)
...pretty rare set to find together, I'd bet.
~~~Are these like the ones you have found?
If so here is an estimate of how they'd sit in the rear, the front tire is flat.
Still would like to buy these things!

 

Ya, stationWAGONS, those are exactly what I have. Mine are all 14X6" all around, and I have five of them, so even the spare will be covered in this deal! And the three bar spinners are plastic, but they have never been mounted to anything and share the four bolt pattern.

It's funny that this thread popped back up, as I was thinking about this the other day when I saw a picture of Norm Grabowski's '54 F100. I guess Watson did it for him at some point about '66 or '67 or so, but there they were... Highly polished slots with three bar spinners and narrow whites. Just after this thread faded a month ago I also saw a picture here of a mid sixties Mopar with the slots/narrow whites too. Still chewin' on it...

I didn't grab the picture out my mom's album, but if I can think to i will next time I'm up there. The car is off topic being a '68, but I have to admit it was slick. It went from the lot at Midway Ford on University in St. Paul to my dads shop and that night had a coil or so clipped at each corner, and the Ansen Sprints and narrow whites installed. It sat on a slight forward rake and was silver with a black vinyl top. It later got some mild candy blue accent paint and striping, and was a 4 door with the rear suicide doors.