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Those look like rims that came on Lotus 7 and maybe cotinas. Looks like the triumph/lotus pattern. 4 on 3.75? I think?
 
Those wheels are the 'original' rostyle spridget rims. Only used for a year. The were first installed on Midgets & Sprites in Oct 1969 till Oct 1971. Then the second generation rostyle wheels were installed.
 
Look closer.Those are not the original rostyle wheels. The ones in the photo are cast alloy. The rostyles you are refering to are stamped steel(I have a pile of them in the vortex). While they do look like them I am pretty sure they are not. The bolt pattern sure looks small for a sprite pattern. Like I said before late Lotus 7's came with a wheel that looked like that.
 
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Those look like rims that came on Lotus 7 and maybe cotinas. Looks like the triumph/lotus pattern. 4 on 3.75? I think?

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Cortinas use 4 -4-1/4 bolt pattern.

- Doug
 
oops, I was wrong. they are not cortina rims. the sevens and other loti use the smaller pattern ...right? Maybe Europa?
 
Spitfires are 3.75" I believe
 
10 square holes would be MGB. These have 8 which match the midget, but midget is stamped. V8 car had 8 square holes, alloy, like these but are slighjtly dished. Are these slightly dished?
 
Do not like to but in on someones post. Jolly you seem to know alot about part. Why were those rims used 1 year was there a probulem with them. I lilke the looks of them, would you consider selling and shipping. I have noticed that your are selling your collection.

Carl
 
I don't know why they changed. Maybe they wanted all the BMC stuff to have the same looking wheel. I had a set on a spec-sprite racer and had no problems. I will see if I can dig up a set of five next time I am out there. I think they look cool. I don't know that much. I just get to pick and choose here. I only have two or three brain cells. Proved by the fact that I build and race Sprites. Smart people don't do these things.
 
Seems to me they look like J-Healey... but I've only marginally more synapse connections than jolly... I only build now. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Anyone who has been around sprites as much as you is smart in my book. also do they have the same offset. My car is a 63 square fender. I would really like to get a set of them,if at all possable. I am too far away to take atvantage of all the goodies that you are going to sell or give away. If I was less than 1000 miles I would be there with a BIG truck

Thanks Carl
 
Jensen Healey
 
Whats the bolt circle?
That will tell you.
I have an older chart that tells what the bolt pattern/circle is on older cars.
It's nice to know what else interchanges with your car.

- Doug
 
Re: Early Midget Rostyle Wheels

The wheel in the photo at the top of this thread is not a Midget wheel....the 1-year early Midget rostyles have 8 of those openings but they're smaller...plus the early Midget wheel has 4 raised "ribs" leading from the center to 4 of those openings

I've a set of them out in one of my sheds that I'll get a photo of in a few days.
 
Re: Early Midget Rostyle Wheels

Yup. The wheel "up there" is alloy, and I'll *bet* it fits a Jensen Healey.
 
Re: Early Midget Rostyle Wheels

Those are aftermarket alloy wheels, not J-H wheels. I've got a couple of sets of them in the 13" x 5" size with a 4 x 4" bolt pattern that I use on my H-Prod Sprite. If I remember correctly they have a "GB" cast on the inside of the rim. Perhaps that is the brand name. They are nice wheels and reasonably light. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
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