I've been thinkin of changing my back tires on the Hugger cause I think they look like bike tires! This is not what you expect on a muscle car today! :-\
I started to look around EBay for some old school wider tires. Together with some 14x7" rims could it be the recipe for me!
With help from a firend of my a couple of NOS tires were found and they even had there color marking on!:
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas006.jpg)
During the winter I took all the wheels down and sent the rear rims for extension(?) to a special rim shop. The result is great and you can barley see that this isn't original 7" rims! After sand blasting and paint they look like this:
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas002.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas001.jpg)
The differ between front and rear rims:
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas004.jpg)
I also made a spare wheels in the same time.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas022.jpg)
I also change brand of the tires for this season to match the NOS Good Year Polyglas from EBay. The rear tires are H70-14 and the front ones are F70-14.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas012.jpg)
Here they are in place:
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas041.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas038.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas035.jpg)
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/hugger69/Polyglas039.jpg)
...have you ever heard of "old school Pro Touring" before or am I first with this expression?
Very nice! have a set of FC 14x6 in the shed to restore and get on Jinx, just like yours! :D
Thanx dude! :)