After much deliberation on wheels for my 39 Chev Coupe I am about to order a set of chromies as above. I swapped between Cragar SS, Artillery rims and smoothies but think the smoothies the look I like. Any issues with the chrome plating? Bear in mind these need to be ordered and paid for, sight unseen, before being shipped to New Zealand. Russell.
I was able to get these in 2008 from a guy here in Oz, I ordered 15x6 and 15x7 Wheel Vintique Chrome Smoothies with the standard offset and supplied baby moons and was very pleased with the quality and everything about them......I installed Coker Cl***ic Whitewall Radials, 195/75x15 and 235/75x15, o/k mine was a 1941 Plymouth Coupe so that's a difference but everything cleared inner & outer and I had no issues re the wheels or tyres, ran the tyres at 35psi, the wheels back then were approx. $200.00 each with the tyres being $385/415.00 each, so wheels & tyres were $600.00 Oz per corner plus balancing, I fitted the things to the car myself................ended up selling the car in 2013 like a dope............lol................andyd
I have had both Wheel Smith and Wheel Vintiques chromies and had no problems at all . I'm not 100% positives on this but i think the ones that Speedway Motors sells are Vintiques ?. I got mine directly from the companies themselves.
I ordered two7x15 rallye rims from jegs when I got them this side of the atlantic I was not happy with the quality of the welds,one looked very good the weld on the second looked much smaller and there was a lot of weld splatter,looked like the gas ran out during the welding.took it up with jegs who took it up with vintiques.they said the weld was strong enough.if I was picking these up in the shop I would have left the second one behind me.alas they were on this side of the atlantic when I discovered this.i expected much better quality control from this brand .
Thanks guys. Andydodge, they look good and are the same sizes I plan to order (15 x 7, 15 x 6) with standard offset. Cheers Russell
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