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#774138 08/23/2011 2:46 AM
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Can you all give me some ideas/brand names for some resonably priced plain old chrome wheels that will fit a stock 63 half ton? 15" Old scchool type. thank you.

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It depends on what you mean by old school type. I grew up a car kid in the 1950’s and loved the original painted or chrome reversed rims when they were first produced. These earliest versions always used a vintage rim with a tapered or conical shape to the back side of the wheel. Here’s a link showing the difference between a vintage style wheel rim and a modern disc brake wheel:

http://www.rallyamerica.com/taperchrome.html

The line drawing on the left shows an original 1940’s – early 1960’s style wheel, after it has been “reversed”. This means the center of the wheel has been cut out; the rim turned around backwards and welded back in place. This produces a wheel that looks much deeper and pushes the tires outboard further than stock. The drawing on the right shows a modern disc brake wheel that has not been reversed. When reversed these wheels aren't as attractive because the don't have the conical face, and the rim is marred by a safety bead near the tire bead. This appears as a groove in the face of the wheel that tends to collect dirt and get rusty.

For a deeper look in the 50's and 60's - Buick or Mercury rims were often mated with whatever center fit the car. Rally America is the only wheel company I’m aware of that currently offers these tapered rims, either painted or chromed.

If the tapered face doesn’t matter to you, most of the aftermarket vintage wheel suppliers can provide late model disc brake chrome wheels to fit your bolt pattern. Wheel Vintiques, Newstalgiawheel, Vintage Wheels, Coker Tire, Vintage Wheel Works, are a few that come to mind. If you want to run stock hubcaps, make sure the wheels you look at have provision for the stock caps. Many universal chrome wheels have the hub cap bumps smoothed off, and only compatible/small baby moon style caps will fit.


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Don't need disc type but won't hurt either. I used to use reversed chrome on my 56 when I was a kid. That would be good or just a chromed stock. Not too many 15" rims avail used mostly 18-22.


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One place that comes to mind is Stockton Wheel In Stockton Ca. They can make anything you want as they have been in the wheel business since the wagon wheel days.
WWW. Stockton Wheel .Com
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From threads I read Stockton Wheel went out of business. The first link is typical of others I have seen. Not sure if it's true but their website is offline:

http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=76012.0

http://www.stocktonwheel.com/


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found some, thanks all.


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I have a set of ION 171s on my 66 stepside and I LOVE them. They're polished aluminum, not chrome, so no worries about rust. Only about #360 a set shipped in 15x8 from Jegs so they're as cheap as chromies - again, with no worries of rust ever.

Pic of 66 stepside with polished ION 171s


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