Spindle mounts on a trailor, have spare tire donuts for tires. Look to good to be real mags. Any ideas on telling if they are aluminum or magnesium? If mags, what are they worth?
The trailor looks like a handicap tripod trailor........but the tailights look late 40's small rectangler. That is the reason I am looking for more expert opinion. The trailor looks way to new for spindle mount anything.......least of all mags.
Halibrand magnesium spindle mounts, maybe mid to late '60s. Good find. If they aren't corroded too bad on the inside, they seem to go for $500-$1500 at the swaps. They came as castings machined for Anglia or Early Ford bearings. They are probably on trimmed early Ford spindles. There was an article in an old Popular Mechanics (or one of those old mags) that showed how to make a trailer axle by hack sawing the king pin bosses off of early Ford spindles and bolting them to channel iron welded to a pipe - my Dad built our 1st boat trailer from that article.
They look pretty good but we're only seeing the front on one. As others said they are magnesium. Unless they are crazy money or corroded badly you can't go wrong. Like your rpu, I'm doing a '29 on '32 rails and lengthening the doors 4".
It dosent look too rotted. Even if its a copy/knockoff, its bitchen and will clean up real nice. Definite score.
Had a similar set about 40 years ago on an old junk trailer. I could never find tires to fit. If I remember right (probably not) the tire was a 16.5 inch diameter. I always assumed they were from an airplane. my 2¢ .bjb
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