Wheels used on Trans-Am Camaros

[Jon Mello]

Ron, those look nice on there. Are they 15x6's?

[BULLITT65]

Looks good. What wheels do you run on your other Z?

[Ron C.]

Yes Jon,15X6 special order.They are 15X7 standard order.I had to wait 6 months for them.Made in England.The other Z has the rallys from GM because I still show the car.Maybe at super chevy this weekend in Maple grove dragway.

[Ron C.]

the other 67Z with rallys

[maroman]

Ron C., this is the '67 that has shown at Hershey? Rear window defroster as I remember?

[BULLITT65]

looking good. Does the white car have some racing history since it has the roll bar in it?

[Ron C.]

Yes but your going to chuckle when I tell you that it was used in hillclimb racing in Pennsylvania and also rally racing somewhere where they used to have cone racing in a big parking lot that was a timed type of racing.I cannot find any documentation on this but the person that owned the car back in 1968 told me that his father raced the car in these scca sanctioned events.If anyone knows anything about the hillclimb  events in PA. or has any names of the drivers that did this kind of racing in Pa lmk.I cant say the last name of the person that I spoke with but if I see his last name on a drivers list I can verify it.The car still has the holes in the rocker panels that the exhaust hangers were mounted to in front of the rear wheels.

[Ron C.]

Ron C., this is the '67 that has shown at Hershey? Rear window defroster as I remember?

No I have not been to hershey with the red car.It was at super chevy about 2 yrs ago in maple grove Pa.

[BULLITT65]

I am obviously a fan of red, but the looks of the white one with the driven hard look is really cool.

[Shadow Ahead]

Did any Camaros use deep dish mags like the RORs on Moffat's Mustang or the mystery mags on subsequent private ownership pictures of Donohue's Javelin?

Steve

[Shadow Ahead]

Javelin pics originally in 'Collectible Automobile':
http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/articles/cajav20.jpg
http://www.javelinamx.com/javhome/articles/cajav21.jpg

Three Moffat pics on this page:
http://www.planetsoarer.com/fats/fats.htm


Steve

[Shadow Ahead]

Small correction: ROH wheels on Moffat's Mustang.

Steve

[Jon Mello]

Did any Camaros use deep dish mags like the RORs on Moffat's Mustang or the mystery mags on subsequent private ownership pictures of Donohue's Javelin?

Steve

     In Trans-Am (1972 and earlier) you were required to use a wheel no wider than 8". I believe a 10" wide wheel was allowed beginning in 1973 but the Trans-Am series was not the same at that point.

[Steve Holmes]

The handsome American Racing 5-spoke wheel was the wheel of choice in the Trans-Am through to the end of 1968. Then, almost as one, all the factory teams switched to Minilites for 1969.

However, the two factory Mustang squads ran American Racing 200 wheels in the early races, before then switching to Minilites, although the 200s do appear to have made come-backs at various points in the year for both teams. Also, the T/G Firebird team appears to have at least fitted AM 200 wheels to their cars very early, and before the season started. They also then switched to Minilites.

Does anyone know why, first of all, the teams that initially ran the American Racing 200 wheels chose these over the previous years AM design that had been so popular? And what advantages did the Minilite have over both the American Racing wheels used through to 1968, and the 200 wheels? This was really a big sea-change in wheel choice for teams.

[69Z28-RS]

My understanding is that sometime during the '69 season, several teams suffered cracking in the spokes of the AR five spokes.  American Racing designed a new (slightly heavier) 6-spoke wheel to address those with concerns, but by the time AR introduced those wheels, the 8 spoke minilites had captured most of the market...

Ps.  I have a set of the 5-spoke AR magnesium wheels and a set of the AR 6-spoke wheels which were ran on Robert Christiansen's '69 Z28; one of the spokes on one 5-spoke wheel has such a crack.