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I cant see the 17's being better performing under braking if you are running drum brakes all around. My BIL's 67 mustang has similar 17" wheels and maybe I am just not used to all drum brakes but I almost shat myself the first time I applied the brakes.

bravenrace have you checked this place out?
http://www.detroitvintagewheels.com/
As far as I know its pretty pricey too, but damn does he do a great job bringing these wheels back to life.

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Toyman01: I agree TT's are overdone, but its hard to find a wheel that looks better on these cars. I was trying to be a little different when I bought the Cragars, but they've never looked quite right to me. That's partly because they look too good for the car. I have looked for years for a set of vintage wheels for the car, but have never found anything. I also would like to use Panasports, but I've never seen them on a pre-'69 Mustang where I thought they looked good.

How about the Cragars with a satin/brushed lip rather than a polished one?

3.

2 Looks unfinished and 1 doesn't stand out much.

3! I love me some Torque Thrusts.

(That sounded dirty.)

Toyman01 wrote:

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Toyman01: I agree TT's are overdone, but its hard to find a wheel that looks better on these cars. I was trying to be a little different when I bought the Cragars, but they've never looked quite right to me. That's partly because they look too good for the car. I have looked for years for a set of vintage wheels for the car, but have never found anything. I also would like to use Panasports, but I've never seen them on a pre-'69 Mustang where I thought they looked good.

How about the Cragars with a satin/brushed lip rather than a polished one?

I've thought of that, but I'm hesitant to attempt to do it on what are virtually new wheels. The car is far from perfect, and the polished wheel lips just seem to overwhelm the rest of the car. Thing is, I'd have that problem with new TT's as well. How would you go about doing it?

failboat wrote: I cant see the 17's being better performing under braking if you are running drum brakes all around. My BIL's 67 mustang has similar 17" wheels and maybe I am just not used to all drum brakes but I almost shat myself the first time I applied the brakes. bravenrace have you checked this place out? http://www.detroitvintagewheels.com/ As far as I know its pretty pricey too, but damn does he do a great job bringing these wheels back to life.

I've got discs on the front. I haven't heard of detroit vintage wheels before. Thanks for the link! I think these might look good on it:

Oh yeah, hard to argue that.

If you have Facebook I think they might even have more photos of the inventory there. Their custom "magnesium cast" look that they have been doing lately on a couple sets of wheels is pretty awesome.

In reply to failboat:

Unfortunately the wheels above are not the correct size or bolt patter for my car. But the look...

I don't think the original Torq-Thrust's are overdone. I can see that argument for the Torq Thrust II's though.

In reply to JFX001:

For some reason they just look right on old Mustangs. The Cragars actually have a backspacing that allows larger tires than the TT's. The 245's I have on the back wouldn't fit with TT's, but yet they look good on these cars.

IMO, it needs a set of magnum 500's

My order is #1, #2, #3... The gray on the TT's don't work for me with Prairie Bronze... but they look great on Wimbledon White...

Type Q wrote:

Kia_Racer wrote: 3, I like the Bullitt style wheels.

Same here.

I really dislike Bullitt wheels immensely. That style doesn't translate well to the larger diameter. Old cars generally need 60 or 70 series rubber or they look silly.

(This is not your cue to threadjack with photos that prove me wrong...)

1. But yeah, please swap the tires to lose the white letters.

Woody wrote:

Type Q wrote:

Kia_Racer wrote: 3, I like the Bullitt style wheels.

Same here.

I really dislike Bullitt wheels immensely. That style doesn't translate well to the larger diameter. Old cars generally need 60 or 70 series rubber or they look silly. (This is *not* your cue to threadjack with photos that prove me wrong...)

Those aren't bullitt wheels, they're torque thrusts. There's a difference.

dm289 wrote: My order is #1, #2, #3... The gray on the TT's don't work for me with Prairie Bronze... but they look great on Wimbledon White...

Get off my lawn!!!!!

Junkyard_Dog wrote: 1. But yeah, please swap the tires to lose the white letters.

Wrong

Highest quality adapters you can find and a set of 15" Porsche phone dials, please. Double bonus if you find 16"s and actually want to pay for them for this little project. Keep the white letters if you must, on that I have no opinion.

3,1,2. 1 and 3 are close, and I would paint 1 a lighter color before selling them to buy 3. I just greatly dislike dark wheels on most things.

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One. Smaller wheels with big fat meats just look oh so right on classic cars.