Hot Rods Mis matched wheels front and rear?

More drag action and more mis matched wheels…

 

That’s killer….

 

Naaaaaaaaaa.I don't get mad.... I just couldn't think of a better word than poser. (I included me in the group)
Ya know high in the front (moonshine hauler look ...I did that too)
High in the rear(Cali.rake...I did that too)
High ALL OVER (yep....me too)

 

A rubber rake was common in the 60’s. My college car, a ‘57 BelAir tudor, I built after my freshman year, with the 327, 3 speed from my Model A Tudor. I got station wagon wheels for the back with the biggest tires that fit. The wagon wheels were an inch wider the stock, but were obvious to those who looked, along with the bigger tires. The car had a typical California rake, with 14” black wall tires, black rims and baby Moons. Next were big and little narrow whites with the same black wheels and baby moons. An extra pair of wider steel wheels and 7” slicks for strip use only, next again were 14x6 Americans for the rear only, hoping to buy15x8.5s for the rear when adequate money was available, but it never was. I got my engineering degree and a few months later the draft notice in 1968. Hello Vietnam. All those years, I never had the same sized wheels or tires in the front and back. Money was a factor, but so was the intended look.


No photos of the car with black tires and wheels

this is how it was toward the end

Borrowed wheels from the Malibu. never actually used except for the photo.


Even this kustom painted Olds had big and little wheels. My buddy was an awesome painter, but this job burned him out.


My dad’s ‘56 with wheels and 5.60/8.20 tires from my Model A, just playing around. That truck disappeared when I was in VN.

 

@Russ B -
Love that paint job! Wish my Olds looked like that.

 

Painted and chrome steelies…

 

In my case it was just a case of what I could find cheap in the sizes I wanted to run.

 

You’ve been running those buckets a while, haven’t ya

 

Jim & Steven somewhere on the road at Drag Week. HRP

 

yup
I like open wheeled roadsters; currently on number four, not including my champ car..

 

Does this one count?

 

...and it never looks "wrong", on any car.

 

I'm kind of selective about certain mismatched wheel combos but your right, narrow alloy fronts with painted steel rear wheels were quite common throughout the 60's on drag cars.

 

^^^^^ Or on actual street/strip cars that I would think were more plentiful in the 60's. That 57 wagon that loveoftiki posted is perfect. It is plated and in the driveway, and suggests to me that it would normally have the Radirs and whites all round but, "Right now I've got some business to take care of and you might not want o mess with me".

 

Hence the trophy on the hood…killer pic I thought

 

I like half black/half white rear wheels.

 

I like the mismatched look. Rears are a set of used 15x8 smoothies. I wanted old Fenton or Ansen 5 spokes for the front but couldn't find any in the size and lug pattern I needed and ended up with new Rockets. Going to replace the front tires with some blackwall DB Auburns, the pie crusts in front will be better match for the slicks.

 

@65pacecar posted this in the SS Mopar thread….

 

I like that wagon! ^^^^^^^
Now I have to post mine.

 

NHRA D/MP class eliminations at Indy early 1970's.

 

Bitchin…….its like a version on Dyno’s Comet…
PM me the details..that’s a lot of rubber under those wheel openings out back

 

Even Hot Rods ran em BITD…