Wheel Vintiques would like our help!

[mausersmth]

Wheel Vintiques has a new wheel some of us will find interesting. They call it OE with original style clips. They are 15 inch diameter and between 4.5 and 14 inch wide. http://www.wheelvintiques.com/ Watch the slideshow for the wheel to come up.
I spoke to them today about this wheel and they confirmed that they want to offer it to fit the customer's preferred dog dish hubcap. They have the specs for Ford, Chevy and Chrysler, now they are asking for help with the other makes. They need samples of our caps to insure they get the specs right!

Who has a spare cap they can loan or give them? They will return the cap if asked, but a damaged cap will work if the rim is intact. If you can help, please contact them.

Wheel Vintiques Inc.
5515 E Lamona Ave
Fresno, Ca 93727

Wheel Vintiques Inc. is open Monday-Friday, from 8am-5pm Pacific Standard Time.

Tel: 559-251-6957
Fax: 559-251-1620

[sbca96]

If they made a 17 inch that would be cool! Add a 17" beauty ring and you
have a neat "rally wheel". There has to be a forum member in Fresno...

Tom

[scott.rodgers]

Are all post-war Stude dog dish caps the same size? I assume they are.

[Jeff_H]

The early ones have have slots for clips up till '56-'57 or so. The later ones have knobs on the rim for the cap to snap onto.

[jclary]

Are all post-war Stude dog dish caps the same size? I assume they are.

If you assume that...(As Johnny Carson would have said) "You are wrong old poodle breath!"

[scott.rodgers]

I asked about the size because I have an old 63 cap I can send them. If there are other sizes/ mounting configurations, someone else will have to send them a sample.

[jclary]

I asked about the size because I have an old 63 cap I can send them. If there are other sizes/ mounting configurations, someone else will have to send them a sample.

Scott, I was just having a little fun, but I have a variety of wheels and caps from various years and cars. The '48 champion I have has dog dish caps. Later the Larks came out with a similar cap except the center has a circle with a lazy "S" stamped in it. They look similar but the plain jane '48 caps will not snap on the "nubs" of the later lark wheels. Conversely, the later Lark dog dish caps will not fit the '48 wheels. Also, the Commander and truck dog dish caps will not work with the champion wheels using the slotted spring clips. In addition to the slotted wheels, I have a wheel with spot welded spring clips that will accept the champion caps. That makes at least 3 different patterns required to make the different caps work. There may be more.

[mausersmth]

We can simplify this a bit.
The new wheels are five lug car wheels, so we can skip the truck caps, as well as the four lug Champion applications.
Of the post-war five lug car wheels, how many times did they change the size? I thought that the size had stayed constant from at least '53 until the end, though one of you might know of exceptions.

Wheel Vintiques told me they can mount the clips to fit almost any cap. They would like to have as many applications on file as the can to make ordering easier. I for one, like the idea of a wheel being listed for 'Late Studebaker caps, '5? to '66'.

[StudeRich]

NEW Stude. Wheels

As Jeff_H tried to tell you, the '51 to '57 Wheels have the holes for the clips and are one size, the '58 to '66 Wheels have the humps formed in the wheel and are another size.

They will need a (round) Cap from each year Group to make the two type of wheels.

If no one comes up with those two Caps PM me, I would like to have more options than expensive custom made steelies, or too modern alloys that are too wide for a Stude.

The big issue with this is going to be the OFFSET, get it wrong and they are useless!

Make mine 15X 5 1/2 inch with no more than a 1/2 in. outboard offset than stock, with Late Type Caps! My Chrysler Cordoba wheels look a bit odd with the tires closer than stock to the fenders!

Oh yeah! They also need to have anti-spin humps like original on each side of the Valve stem, so Wheel Covers can be used.

[DEEPNHOCK]

Wheel Vintiques will make you exactly what you want...size wise (16' for Tom's Cobra wheels),
and narrow.... with small offsets (for stock).
What Wheel Vintiques won't do is make them for CASO prices.
I bought from them several times and they made up weird offset and odd combo stuff exactly to my spec's.
Do your homework, and ask for the right stuff, and they will do you right.
SWAG it and you are at your own risk.
Odd stuff? Send them a sample....Help the rest of the Stude world out.

As Jeff_H tried to tell you, the '51 to '57 Wheels have the holes for the clips and are one size, the '58 to '66 Wheels have the humps formed in the wheel and are another size.

They will need a (round) Cap from each year Group to make the two type of wheels.

If no one comes up with those two Caps PM me, I would like to have more options than expensive custom made steelies, or too modern alloys that are too wide for a Stude.

The big issue with this is going to be the OFFSET, get it wrong and they are useless!

Make mine 15X 5 1/2 inch with no more than a 1/2 in. outboard offset than stock, with Late Type Caps! My Chrysler Cordoba wheels look a bit odd with the tires closer than stock to the fenders!

Oh yeah! They also need to have anti-spin humps like original on each side of the Valve stem, so Wheel Covers can be used.

[mausersmth]

Scott, you offered a '63 cap, so now we seem to need a '51 to '57 cap.
I knew about the clips, didn't realize the diameter might be different...
When the wheels are ordered you request the desired offset and width.