I think you get it. At least your wheels in the rear have some lip. I favor straight spoke wheels over curved spokes though. Cool color on the car!My problem when I looked for wheels and tires were (as I needed custom offsets) the 15" custom made wheels were as much or more than 17" wheel and the tire options for 15" were limited and lower performing and cost as much as better performing 17" tires. Below is how it turned out before and after. However, I do agree large wheels for the sake of doing it doesn't look right. Up to a 17" or some 18" can look clean and flow well with the car.
My problem when I looked for wheels and tires were (as I needed custom offsets) the 15" custom made wheels were as much or more than 17" wheel and the tire options for 15" were limited and lower performing and cost as much as better performing 17" tires. Below is how it turned out before and after. However, I do agree large wheels for the sake of doing it doesn't look right. Up to a 17" or some 18" can look clean and flow well with the car.
It's funny you should mention about Hot Wheels(couldn't understand what the whole big stupid wheels thing was all about!), but I believe that kids that grew up during that period, exposed to that image, thought it looked cool. I can see putting on a wheel big enough to fit over some kind of giant brakes, or a road race car that needs added stability of short sidewalls, but give me a break!! Those big wheels look STUPID! Especially with stock, rusty brakes. They don't realize big diameter reduces braking and acceleration. I blame Hot Wheels.
74dusted you nailed it. Cool ride you got there.
I am a 100% no compromise agreement with the OP on this topic.
I am into the way I remember them when I was growing up in the 70s.
I do not go as far as the shag carpet in my cars but would before a single
modern style part was installed. I just refuse to put something out of era on any of my cars.
I am proud of the fact that a person could look my cars over top to bottom, front to rear and
not come up with a part you couldn't get back in the early 70s.
If you say you can't find the parts to make it old school like you like
and use something else that was better and modern. I think you didn't
look hard enough.
I also know that to each their own. Their is room for all of us. I just don't
pay no mind to the stuff that doesn't interest me.
So to the OP you are not alone out there with your old school mopars.
I am kind of surprised myself how many showed up here. I would guess most of us
are 50 & older. I'm sure we are the minority.
That is part of the problem right there. 14"-15" tires are so "old school" you can hardly find them anymore - if at all! BTW, I liked the OP's opening post to this thread ... I was like "yeah!, I like that stuff too!" I read on and in a later post I found out that we are only a year apart in age ... "ahhh, that explains it ... we're from the same period". Yep! It was good and I like it! Sorry, I digress ... please continue ...My problem when I looked for wheels and tires were (as I needed custom offsets) the 15" custom made wheels were as much or more than 17" wheel and the tire options for 15" were limited and lower performing and cost as much as better performing 17" tires. Below is how it turned out before and after. However, I do agree large wheels for the sake of doing it doesn't look right. Up to a 17" or some 18" can look clean and flow well with the car.
My '74 was (and will be again when I finish putting it back together) was an Old School style ride too. It ran a Manual Shift 727 (Forward Pattern) with a 1970 (One Year Only) Challenger Slapstik Shifter mounted inside a 1967 Barracuda Center Console. I also added a '67 Cuda Rallye Cluster. B-Body 8.75" with Super Stock Springs, 489 Chunk with 3.23 Sure Grip. Direct Connection Ductail Spoiler, "Pop Out" Style Glass Sunroof, A/C, Power Steering, Cruise Control. Yes, there's even Fuzzy Dice hanging from the Mirror, a 10 Band EQ on top of the Center Console and an 8-Track Radio in the Dash (the only thing out of place/not period correct was the Accel 300+ Ignition Box and the CD Changer). When it finally goes back together, it will have an 8-71 Blown 392 Hemi (1st Gen, not 3rd Gen) and an 18 Spline A833 with a Dana 60 Rear. Keeping the Interior I have, keeping the Keystone Klassic Wheels. About the only changes to the build, will be the Hemi (instead of the 340), the 4-Speed, and the Dana 60. Oh and the 71 Front Clip & Tail Panel.