History WIDE FIVE Hot Rod Picture Thread

I've been following your build! Those rear drums are pretty trick, what backing plates are you running?

 

Sorry i can't answer that, it was just a nice car at a show' JW

 

4C Racing out of San Jose, built the hubs and furnished the backing plates. I have set of Frankland hubs like these, with Buick drums, if I can fit the proper backing plates, I want to use them. I was told by the the guys that ran Supermodifieds, they were the toughest when smacking the wall, due to the rounded design, instead of spokes. Out of the 10 of these cars I built, 7 had wide 5's.

 

I'm getting there
Hoping to have this bucket moving under its own power this year (of course, I've said that for the last several years now)

 

Well I got the front about a week or two ago, but I am excited about getting these rears!!

 

Those are killer!!

 

I had some of those off a 36 panel truck, they went to the scrapper .

 

I appreciaate it! My fiance is stoked to have them on her tudor sedan "Momma Minivan"

Oh bummer!! Know anyone with 39 lincoln front backing plates by any chance? I need a pair to make these old drums into juice brakes

 

‘39 Commercial rims on the rear.

 

Saw this car at TROG last year. I’d like to find a pair of these.

 

18” high clearance

 

I’m doing that with my tudor. Have any more photos? Send me a message if you need help figuring it out, it’s a bunch of random ford parts.

Any more photos?

 

This one is wicked cool

 

I have the 5" (I think) commercials on the rear, 3 ½" 60s on the front

Also have the "cheap" caps

 

What size tires in the front of that sweet looking tudor?

 

DanHay. Front is 500/5.25 -16”
First pic with Hay Bales is before we removed the reverse eye spring.
Last pic with Horse is after we raised approx 1 3/4” with new Posie spring

 

I’m torn, not sure which style I should go for!

 

Sure!!!

 

I need to find me a set of these! They're awesome!

 

a customer car i did a handful of years back

 

Greg Weld supermodified aluminum wide 5's. Were very rough from years of the dirt track wars but the price was right.

 

Light weight alloy steel wide 5. Retail $90.00. $20.00 like new at a swap meet. 5 spoke wide 5 hubs made for drums. Not the common ones you see all the time for disc brakes. 201 Halibrand quickchange with 28 spline double spline axles.

 

Pic of my wide 5.

 

Wide fives were primarily on race cars not so much on street cars and yes So Cal was where 80% of 50's cars were created, so it was the main hot rod center of the country.

 

I would like to see a citation that attests to that number.

Even if it were accurate, it does not negate my statement.

I grew up in New England, and a there were a TON of hot rods in shows and on the street with Wide-5's. Nobody considered them unusual.

 

This thread wasn’t created to argue whether or not wide five wheels are period or correct and whatnot.

This is a picture thread.

If you want to discuss decades and whether it’s correct or not, make your own thread.

Here’s a badass picture to get BACK ON TOPIC.

 

Rocket Man's modified.

 

Prety sure that's @hotrodderhaag