Anyone recognize these rims

[hottvr]

Anyone recognize these rims?

 

[jollyroger]

Those look like rims that came on Lotus 7 and maybe cotinas. Looks like the triumph/lotus pattern. 4 on 3.75? I think?

 

[Biff]

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.

 

[jollyroger]

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.

 

[AngliaGT]

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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

 

[jollyroger]

oops, I was wrong. they are not cortina rims. the sevens and other loti use the smaller pattern ...right? Maybe Europa?

 

[Matthew E. Herd]

Triumphs use that smaller 4X3.X pattern, don't they?

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Spitfires are 3.75" I believe

 

[Bugeye58]

They look like TR7 rims from here. 4 x 3.75" bolt circle.
Jeff

 

[vping]

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?

 

[Taz]

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

 

[jollyroger]

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.

 

[DrEntropy]

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

 

[jollyroger]

Your right ..they do look like JH wheels.

 

[Taz]

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

 

[tony barnhill]

Jensen Healey

 

[AngliaGT]

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

 

[tony barnhill]

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.

 

[DrEntropy]

Re: Early Midget Rostyle Wheels

Yup. The wheel "up there" is alloy, and I'll *bet* it fits a Jensen Healey.

 

[hpmowog]

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