I was wondering if there is a demand for 17” one piece innie rims? ,Doug

 

Could we see a picture of the backside of those rims?

 

No, that’s a widow maker. A basic fact about old 17” wheels having the 8 x 6.5” pattern, there were no one piece versions. All Ford and Dodge wheels were RH-5° WMs, the GM version was a three piece version having a side ring with small locking ring. Called the Firestone/Kelsey Hayes “AR” design, Stu

 

[QUOTE=truckdog62563;21018764]No, that’s a widow maker. A basic fact about old 17” wheels having the 8 x 6.5” pattern, there were no one piece versions. All Ford and Dodge wheels were RH-5° WMs, the GM version was a three piece version having a side ring with small locking ring. Called the Firestone/Kelsey Hayes “AR” design, Stu[/QUOT

Ok thanks , I never crawled under to get a closer look. I didn’t know all 17” rims were made the same way. Thought maybe there were different manufacturers.
doug.

 

Checking the books the Budd 49380 widow maker was also used by Studebaker in addition to Ford and Dodge. Importantly it’s only the SRWs with 8 x 6.5” pattern that this applies to. Stu

 

@truckdog62563 , just out of curiosity, what these book you reference?

 

Over the years I’ve built a library of original paper references covering the 1920s to early 2000s, when everything went on-line. In this example a really good original Motor Wheel Corporation catalog from 1964 is on-line and included on the Old Car Manual Project.com site. Old timers here might recall that this has been referenced here a number of times. Link below. Stu

https://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/...tes%20000.html

In fairness, this one on-line catalog won’t give all the answers. You’ll find the NWRA cross reference code X-45047, which will take you to the Budd 49380 manufacturer’s number, but it’d require other Budd or NWRA references to identify it as an RH-5°. Stu