Mag Wheel Guys - WTF is going on???

I have some 12 spokes I have been trying to trade so I can get some 5 spokes. I may end up selling them so I can finance the others. I also bought some 16 X 10 halibrands but neede 16 X 12 . Oh well I can use spacers...

 

forget the pict

 

Dirty2. PM me if you want to sell the 16x10's. I do have a pair of 15x12 Ansen Sprints for trade.


327-365HP... I'm thinking all the people sitting on these wheels like the American 5 spoke mags will try to jump on the bandwagon and sell. This will hopefully bring the supply up and we wont have the panic bidding wars.

 

Not really wanting to sell anything yet. But when I get closser I will keep you in mind.

 

Those ebays ones are high because they're magnesium right?

 

I watched some magnesium bear claws go for like 650 last week which I thought was cheap..

 

Yes, original Halibrand magnesium wheels. Probably from the early 60's.

 

From the add!

Sounds like the sellers wasn´t suspecting that price...

 

Couple of years ago we worked on a set of OZ three piece wheels that were $2200 each !
They were anything but flat, and had different sized bolts holding them together, some of which didn't seat correctly and which had allowed the outer rim to move slightly and ovaled the holes.
Now somebody tell me that's getting what you pay for !!

 

the repro on ebay i saw i belive was unpolished and went for over 800 dollars, quite funny as they cost 349 bux each from newstalgia wheels

http://www.newstalgiawheel.com/listproducts.asp?cat=101182

 

not to forget mentioning the cool describtion on newstalgia wheel

sigh!, personally i get VERY turned off if something is called ratrod
not that i let a term get in the way of something that really is cool
but anyways as realrodderwheels.com got both front and rears i'll get em from him

 

I have a set of real Magnesium Torque Thrusts 15x5 for the front 16x10 for the rear,...... wonder if I should dump em while the market is good,.... I don't think I am ever going to use them, and I could use the money right about now. ( it's been a tight year )

 

I want some skinny aluminum slots.

 

One reason this stuff is going up in price is there are guy hoarding this stuff up. By that I mean guys have 15-30 sets or more of the exat same item. Look at the guy in AZ who has something like 3000 flathead intakes (He has many intakes with 100 exact copies of-Why?) or more and there are others like him.

I sometimes think there is some pschyological illness involved here to some degree.

 

If there wern't guys like that, this stuff would be almost impossible to find, they paid the going rate when they bought the stuff back in the day,..... when a lot of it was just junked, scraped or throwen out,..... they kept this stuff safe for years and there the jerk because now everyone wants what they liked and collected when no one else wanted that junk ?,...... just because it is all popular now they should give it away under what the market is ?,................ Is this your first post ?

 

man, my poor ass can only afford the shitty 60's wheels like Fentons and Sears high quality mag wheels! i make up for the poor quality in volume thought.

 

Wow I was selling some aluminum slot mags on the HAMB for 50 bucks for the pair. And they havent even sold yet.

Maybe I'll chuck them on the gay.

 

What do you think of this deal I got on "the bay", on Thanksgiving day?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3AAAQ%3AUS%3A1&viewitem=&item=110056735322

 

Hide and watch if the aluminum slots aren't gonna skyrocket next. They are already creeping up in the desireable sizes.

 

man, i'm gonna start hoarding Weld Drag Lites and Drag Stars so that in about 50 years......

 

No... they have made it even more imposible to find because they have hoarded them up and have no intention of ever selling them-that's the hoarders I'm talking about...the ones that have 50 of each item and who will never sell them.

Some years back before the SW gauge panels were repop'd by Haneline, originals in any condition were impossible to find. A friend was building a traditional rod and wanted one in the worst way. He approached a deep pockets guy at the Nat's who has big name rod builders build him cars. The guy was known to have collections of old speed equipment. They guy said he had 20 or so new ones in the box and 30 or so mint used ones but none were for sale. The deep pockets, who many on this site know or have seen his cars in the mags, loves to make people grovel at his feet. People who know him have said that's his reputation.

If the guy did not want to sell any he should have said "No, I don't have any" instead he let it dig in that "yes I have many but none will ever be sold so there na na na na"

 

i can rmember buying my first magnesiums back in the mid 90's......think i gave maybe 100 bucks for a pair.....i remember selling a piar of lemans for 200 bucks ...and thinking i hit the lottery....i remember buying 8 magnesiums from a guy in new jersey for 800 bucks back in 99....6 15x10's and 1 pair of 15x4 five spokes with 4.5 pattern .....(still have the 4's...and one pair of 10's....) i remember selling a pair of 15x10 5 spokes and getting 300 bucks......(must be my lucky day....) i remember buying 2 pairs of 15x4.5 mag sprints in 01....gave 700 apair....(man thats crazy .....shouldn't never gave that much for a pair of wheels...) ....fall of 02.....i bought 10 magnesium halibrands from a guy in nc.....2400 bucks....(damn wheel fetish is out of control.....) this bunch got me 2 15x4.5 sprints....2 15x8.5 sprints...4 15x8 small windows ...and what i bought all 10 for.....a pair of 15x4.5 small windows.....in 03 ....i sold the 15x8.5's and 15x4.5's ....got 1600 out of the 4......thought to my self....this guy is nuts....sold the odd pair of 15x8 small windows....350 ....this guy must really wnat them.....in 04 i sold a few wheels off to help come up with some money to buy a car....18" 12 spokes...700 bucks....i thought ...this is big money ....spindle mount sprints....4 to 500 a pair.....12 spokes....3 to 400 a pair....and was making money ....as they were bringing market value....
pretty much everything i have mentioned has atleast doubled in value....if not tripled......i remember selling a guy a set of 4 mag 5 spokes off of a 32 coupe....gave me 1200 and never questioned a thing....i thought i was doing good .....now you can't buy this setup for less than 2500 .....its nuts....i hope they top off soon ....i miss the days of buying 16" big windows for 350 bucks a pair.....hahah as for shakey......those mag sprints you got from jason......those are some mint pieces....haven't seen the "seen" with them on it yet......brandon i have a wheel fetish ....and proud to say it...lol



still looking for a pair of mag 15x4.5 no windows.....without hocking the house to buy a pair.....oh well atleast they are repoping those.....

 

who let this idiot in the door? It's the simple fact that if he hadn't hoarded this shit and continues hoarding it, it would have been GONE!!!...as in not around anymore, period. But since he was as mentally ill as you think he was, that means that when he does decide to sell, or when he passes away we all have a chance to still have vintage parts that would have otherwise been melted down decades ago...

 

I bought 5 pair of NOS 15x4, 4.5 bolt circle Ansen Sprints out of the back warehouse of Johnnies Tire Mart in Steubenville Ohio back in '88 or '89 for $40 a pair and sold them for something around 100-$120 pair.

Back then I was destitute and thought I had hit the lottery...it paid the rent for the month.

 

He's not pissed at you. He's pissed at himself for not knowing what he had his hands on.

Yes, prices are beyond reasonable for what you get. That goes double for a your basic 5 slot mags from 1976.

 

Did he really say the "na na na na" part?

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18

 

No I was trying to say that what his tone was.

 

Streetfreekrustang may have a point. Besides, new hot rod parts have always been expensive, at least since I've been around, but now with T.V. and "Rat Rods" and "vintage" everything, old, rusty, garage sale shit is now high-dollar.

 

Yeah, I figured as much. Say, did you try that handy dandy link I posted?