Chrome reverse wheels.

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 6, 2019 12:43:01 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 12:43:01 GMT -5 Working on a 56 Chevy that's running chrome reverse wheels from an AMT 67 Mercury. Are these wheels trakable? Robert

spex84 Greaser Posts: 4,235	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 6, 2019 13:38:08 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by spex84 on Feb 6, 2019 13:38:08 GMT -5 I didn't know the '67 Mercury came with chrome reverse wheels! Are they actually slot mags? Do you have a photo?
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Feb 6, 2019 12:43:01 GMT -5 @itsgas said:

Working on a 56 Chevy that's running chrome reverse wheels from an AMT 67 Mercury. Are these wheels trakable?

Robert

Are you talking about the chrome wheels from the 67 Comet? If so I don't see why not even though the 1:1 is a chrome steelie like wheel cover. They were available from '65-67 so definitely "in period".

That's my opinion anyway...I sometimes get swiftly corrected and overruled on such things around here LOL. P-)

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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 6, 2019 13:52:57 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 13:52:57 GMT -5 Yes that is the wheel. and here is a picture of the 56. Plans are for a 409, but will have to see!! Robert

spex84 Greaser Posts: 4,235	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 6, 2019 18:36:20 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by spex84 on Feb 6, 2019 18:36:20 GMT -5 If they were available at the time and look like chrome-reverse wheels, then they fit TRAK just fine.
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lo51merc Greaser Posts: 3,366	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 7, 2019 10:16:38 GMT -5 via mobile Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lo51merc on Feb 7, 2019 10:16:38 GMT -5 The design of these wheels is a bit odd though. The area where the lug nuts would be (I assume) has a round hole instead. That really doesn't matter here though. They're just fine. Gary
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spex84 Greaser Posts: 4,235	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 7, 2019 12:50:44 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by spex84 on Feb 7, 2019 12:50:44 GMT -5 As mentioned above, in 1:1 it's a wheel cover for a steelie...but in 1/25 form, it just looks like a chrome wheel!
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constructionbob Greaser Life in scale. Posts: 1,486	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 7, 2019 13:24:43 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by constructionbob on Feb 7, 2019 13:24:43 GMT -5 Your Chevy look just fine, I like the rake.
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Dennis Greaser Posts: 4,478	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 7, 2019 14:42:55 GMT -5 via mobile Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dennis on Feb 7, 2019 14:42:55 GMT -5 So these wheel covers were a factory option '65-'67? Only on Comet's?
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Feb 7, 2019 14:42:55 GMT -5 Dennis said:

So these wheel covers were a factory option '65-'67? Only on Comet's?

As far as I know Yes on the Comet upper trim and performance levels. I don't remember ever seeing them on any other Mercury model, or Ford for that matter.

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lo51merc Greaser Posts: 3,366	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 8, 2019 10:18:20 GMT -5 via mobile Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lo51merc on Feb 8, 2019 10:18:20 GMT -5 Ah, OK wheel cover, got it. Very interesting concept. Gary
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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Chrome reverse wheels. Feb 10, 2019 16:52:56 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 16:52:56 GMT -5 When I was a kid a guy in our neighborhood had a 67 Cyclone with those covers, in this color: That could be his car in fact!
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