Posted by Fred Coldwell on Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 11:33AM :
In Reply to: 20-inch wheels? posted by Russ on Friday, March 01, 2002 at 4:50PM :
With the narrow split ring and inset wheel rim, they look like dually 20" wheels from a 1920's and/or 1930's Ford truck (AA, BB, etc.), which had the same 5 hole bolt circle pattern as our Dodges. The draw back to these Ford 20" wheels are that they are rather narrow, so cannot handle modern tires to well, if at all, and are usually rusted beyond safe use (at least the ones that have sat outside for many decades). But you could use modern production "old" Ford 20" tires on them. Before using ths type of split rim instead of our newer Dodge slpit rims, I'd compare the overall tire diameter to see how much "speed" would be gained by using these older Ford type split rim wheels (unless you simply prefer the look and feel of this even older tire/wheel technology than came on our PWs).
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