530planeman

I have the same wheels on my 70 LT 1 ,Motion project I had mine powder coated with "Black Chrome" If you PM me an e mail I will send you a picture .a great way to save an old American Racing wheel . My email is 4wesbrenton@att.net
I am looking for center caps also
Thanks Wes

gbarmore

Gorgeous car and I love those Vectors and the flares. Just great proportions all around.... Where did you find the Vectors?

Mod75

I bought the Vectors new in 1976, they are 39 years old now.

c3cruzn

1980 L48 Frost Beige, 15-8 Ridler Chrome wheels with 255-60 Goodrich tires. I replace the original aluminum wheels, much better don't you think

71coupe

pic 1: [all on stock rallyes]
Rear: (prev) L-60 M/T's
Front: BFG 245/60R15
Rear mods: Toms 7 leaf short spring. Original T/A e-brake cables moved.
Front mods: cut springs & Vansteel tubular UCA+RRC
pic 2 & 3: 295/50R15 tires. last pic has 265/50 tires in ft & 295's in rear.
Currently 295/245 combo. handles very well & can take hands off wheel at 110 mph

7t9l82

anybody know what the old L-60-15 tire was converted to metric? they seemed wider than a 275-60 but then they weren't radials either.

resdoggie

Here's a link with tire size conversions. It looks like an L60-15 would be about the size of a 275/60-15.

http://www.turbinecar.com/tires.htm

7t9l82

thats a great chart, i bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks.

resdoggie

retrodude

My Daughter and I went with an "Old School" look with Centerline Auto Drags and Western Turbines. (painted every rivet on the centerlines to match too...what a pain!)



Centerline





Turbine

gsixl

MB Old School front 17X7 4" backspacing 215/55r17 rear 17X8 4.5" backspacing 235/55r17 Dunlop Direzza DZ102 V and W speed rated summer performance tires. I am running 1" spacers on front to bring the tire and wheel out in the wheel well. Not needed just think it looks better and matches the rear better.

Same wheel repainted GM Ultra Silver Met WA8867.

BowTieBlood

I went with 18" Boss 338s and Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric All Season tires in size 245/45ZR18 all around. There is a chance at extreme speed and at full turn that they could nick up front, but I haven't had any rubbing issues. In the rear they were close to the e-brake bracket, but I went with offset arms ultimately anyway and they're nowhere close now. The drive is tremendously better than the factory wheels and tire size.

I love the look of the wheel, but I will never buy from that company again. I've been trying to get replacement center caps from them since May of last year. It seems I have a version of the wheel with a more unique cap that most vendors don't carry. They couldn't even assist me enough to sell me something. I contacted them off and on through the end of 2014 and they always had warehousing excuses and billing system excuses, etc. Near late November they actually asked for my address and offered to send them for free.....but they didn't

I'll add some pictures once I get the car back to the house from paint.

holley505

15x4 front and 275/60R15 Mickey T in the back...cut 1.5 coils in the front.

gsixl

Rear 28X9X15 on 8 inch rally Front 195/65r15 on 6 inch rally

palmbeachvette76

Centerline Champ 506 Series 18" x 8" with 4" backspacing. VB&P 550 coil springs front and 8" bolts rear. 255/45ZR18's all around

Scarlett-73

Awesome wheels, My pick for best in this thread. I've had my eyes on the Centerline Champs for about a year now. Nice job!

holley505

Nice... same stance as my car. Did you cut the coils?

Lots of White 77s on this post. LOL

AirBusPilot

Vintage Wheel Works V48

F: 17 x 9
275/40 x 17

R: 17 x 9.5
285/40 x 17

Van Steel suspension. Coil overs and tubular A-arms up front, offset trailing arms in the rear.

Cattiva73

Found TrueSpoke rims at Carlisle, PA .... they're a pain to clean but I love them!
Cheers

7t9l82

when i bought my 78 pace car new, i went down and had true spokes put on that day. in about 2 months of cleaning them i sold them and put torque thrusts on it. i sold the true spokes to another corvette guy and a year later the rust was awful. they take a lot of work , keep them cleaned and waxed. but they do look great.