Vwiggins

Can anyone provide any information about the corvette in this picture? Size and type of wheels, modified stock chassis or custom chassis, suspension mods, etc. Thanks for the help.

ChattanoogaJSB

It is a computer drawing. Kind of a nice look. I would suggest you see if anyone makes Halibrand style wheels in 20" plus sizes. A car like this would have extensive bodywork and yes an aftermarket chassis to accommodate.

Poorhousenext

The wheels are "Shelby Cobra" style. American Racing and other companies sell them. You will see them on a lot of Mustangs as well as Cobra Kit cars.

Can't tell from the picture what width the tires are as well as wheels, but they could be fitted by any of the means you listed for Chassis, even stock, with skinny tires and little more positive offset, but looks would suffer.

Getting that ride height of the body over the wheels would be the trick.

Also looking at the tire's fitment in fender well opening, and the aspect ratio of tire to rim width look, to get that look would require a tire dia of 28.0" as stock wheel wells were designed for 27" tall tires. That tire has to be at least 28.0" tall to get that much wheel well fill. As narrow as the side wall of that tire is, to get that look it looks like you would need a 22.0" dia wheel to get a 28.0" dia tire with that aspect ratio.

I use 20" wheels and 28.0"+ dia tires to get that look on back. 18.0" wheels with 28.0" dia tires is a better look if you want less of a wagon hoop look to tires and wheels as you get more tire side wall.

18" 28."



20" 26" stock C6 wheel and tire size.



20" 28"



By the way, those pictures showed me I needed to use a light colored paint to try and help the ugly look of wheels. Sort of use Ugly to try and Help Ugly...LOL






The paint is flat black/hot rod black, and you might want to stay with it if you want to build a car with that wheel and stance look. Bright colors or any light color paint would change the entire look of styling.

427435

And a very large turning radius!!

Vwiggins

Can anyone provide any information about the corvette in this picture? Size and type of wheels, modified stock chassis or custom chassis, suspension mods, etc. Source of the picture would be great. Thanks for the help.

wolfman64

Looks like a Bobby Alloway car to me.

http://www.allowaysrodshop.com

ChattanoogaJSB

you can go on Google and reverse lookup the photo and see where it appears - perhaps tracing it to a builder.

Vwiggins

Thank you for the reply. This forum is a great resource.

Vwiggins

Thank you. I was able to find some information about the pictured car using your method.