I.D. these wheels?

I've seen these wheels on plenty o cars, but can't find any info on em, just curious of why i don't see them anywhere if they were so popular back when....

 

I only remember them on that futuristic looking car when it was in the magazines in the mid/late 60's. Evidently the Custom chrome Center may have sold them. From the looks of the photos I'd say that place wasn't far from Watson's.

 

Your powers of observation are freakishly sharp, man.

 

If they were still made they would be looked down on like other flash chromed boat trailer wheels but since they are vintage they are kinda cool.

 

Call GeneWinfield or Russ Meeks in Milwaukie Oregon they both worked on those cars

 

I think they look pretty cool on the impala's with whitewalls.

 

There's a story about the caddy on the internet somewhere, they are listed as Appliance.

http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Steve_Drale's_1958_Cadillac

 

I remember them from the 60's, I didn't care for them then and I don't care for them now!

 

Those look like "basket wire" wheels without the wire insert.

 

If you want to cut your own slots and get hem chromed, the Cragar Delux wheels are pretty close...

http://www.cragarwheel.com/products16-18/CragarSeries69Delux

I bought a set of 4 of the wire basket wheels sans basket for $20... I could probably get my grinder out and make you a set out of them?

 

uh...save yer grinder discs...I'll pass on a home made set. I'm surprised, with the 60's craze back in full swing, no sign (or interest) in these wheels.

 

Nostalgia is selective.

 

"Nostalgia is selective." Amen!!!

 

Yep, some things that were ugly back then are still ugly today!!!!

 

I must agree. Thanks for breaking the ice.

 

I think it works a bit like popular visions of the future, which very often consist of the time they're published with anything recognizably old removed. So "the future" in a 1937 magazine would have been how the world would have been if it had leapt fully formed from the brow of Zeus in 1937, without any past that gave rise to it. It would also have no future as such; only concentrated 1937ness.

Nostalgia - especially if it isn't strictly nostalgia, i.e. homesickness or a longing for some or other part of one's own past life, but a fascination with a sort of historical fantasy realm - will work the same way. It will focus on what is most narrowly redolent of the context and reject that which might, by whatever accident, have an ambiguous resemblance to something else.

Case in point here, these wheels look right on that "futuristic" show car because the rest of the car sort of primes us not to see the wheels' resemblance to '70s turbine-style wheels. On all the others they look a bit too much for comfort the same sort of family of stuff as this:




Sorry!