Best wheels you've seen on a tri-5??

These are the plan for the Nomad. I think they look "right".

 

For all the TX tri-fivers, gotta be Morbecs

 

Butt Reynolds car is ...wow
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=366#more-366

 

...now that just looks silly

 

Coolest car I've seen in a long time. I want to build one like it. Wish I had more info about it. Obviously a pic from years ago....

Rocky

 

each to their own. to me that might as well be a donk.

good luck if you ever have to go around a corner at more than 30mph!

 

Me too...

 

here are mine..........the red rocket has steel wheels painted silver......thats how my dad ran his back in the early 60's

 

Man i Love it!.. So whats under the hood of the Red Rocket!?!?
-Anthony

 

Here's one I owned a few years ago.

 

WOW. Something changed inside my brain when I saw this photo. I don't know why I was even checking out this post- I'm not exactly a tri-five fan. But there is something visceral, something OLD and REAL about this, not "ol' skool". I think I just had one of those epiphanes- like the first time you saw a traditional roadster in a sea of pastel-and-neon Camaros, or like getting into dad's car books as a child, the books being from when he was just a boy. I probably sound nuts, but this is serious! It is like when one smells a fragrance that reminds them of something so familiar that it may not have been in their lifetime. (Now I sound downright femmy). Anyway, I can't stop looking at that car. It reeks of history- just like it is.

 

I'm in the process of buying a '57, 2 door wagon and had been looking for different wheel / tire combos and stumbled on this thread. I had seen this pic a while back and fell in love... I think I've figured out what shoes my wagon needs to wear.



The car in question...

 

My '55 with super tricks....but soon to be chrome reverse....also have a set of ansen slots for as well...John

 

my '55
http://duckuscrapuspond.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1205&d=1199774594

http://duckuscrapuspond.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1206&d=1199774689

 

Can't see the pics without signing in....

 

Big Foot's!!

 

Found this thread with a Google search, thought it was cool, bringing back to the top....lots of cars built in the last 8 years.

 

I'll jump in.

 

These absolutely ruled in the early sixties. There were even "faux' chrome wheel covers, from J.C. Whitney!
(And to me, spider caps on painted wheels miss the mark.)

 

I like these. But chrome reverses would have been my first pick.

 

I prefer the torque thrust type wheels or a chrome reverse wheel on a 50,s car.

 

Dog dish, I like sleepers.

 

Chrome reverse make the whole car. 15X7 w/ cheaters and 14X5 w/ skinny bias plys. I wouldn't have it any other way

 

Like this.

 

My dad's 57 210, I like this look. The '55 above is a neat car, but the super widened wheels and the stance don't say "sleeper" anymore, they have a much different effect.