what are these rims? David is working at the Pete, and they are restoring a lunar rover trainer and need to know what rims were used

https://www.facebook.com/groups/toronado/permalink/10164020552624318

15x8 Keystone Kustomags

I love the Klassics. I remember noticing them for the first time in 1977... I shit you not. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164413735009059&set=gm.4669996416610933&idorvanity=2695731877370740

Carbon Revolution - a company that manufactures carbon fiber wheels for production models including the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 and Ford Mustang Dark Horse, has actually racked up losses of $347 million since mid-2022

 
https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/ford-mustang-carbon-fiber-wheel-supplier-bled-money-for-years/

1975 Motor Wheel Corp Hot Flash wheels

I don't like them, but that's not why I'm posting them. I post them to remind us what ugly stuff looked like in the mid 70s

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238394013688271&set=pcb.4626862084257700

Stashed away in a small warehouse in Sydney is a sea of rare golden-era Japanese wheels, including F1 spares

 

https://www.facebook.com/noplansco/posts/pfbid0qVoXBXePSiDZNBT9Gchh6cUsRqewv99xejKp7QVieoHrZzKwxbKiTenxdfSeF69ul

way back when horse shoe nails were loose everywhere and repairing a flat happened all the time. The license plate is 1911

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/389/

It's great that we normally wear the tread right off tires now, without getting a flat. 

extremely fancy rim design for Cincinnati in the brass era

A rare roller coaster popping up in the background of the photo, you never see that happen by accident! 

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/491/

it was after the expensive high tech latest from the R&D dept CRACKED during the race when he was in the lead, that the soon to face plant cyclist thought about getting a heftier rim that weighs 1 ounce more, and lasts the entire race

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/worse-than-flat-tire.html
https://fixed.org.au/t/tour-de-suisse-on-channel-one-digital-tonight/46162/3

After multiple lawsuits, General Motors sent Corvette owners of certain model 2015 to 2019 corvettes a letter saying they would pay the repair and replacement costs for the defective wheels, but, GM told one owner that it’s now out of their hands, and paying the claims is totally the responsibility of a third-party company.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/corvette-owner-says-shes-been-waiting-months-get-money-owed-her-over-unsafe-wheels/UDQOP2ISPVAPLJGJUA26AGCQSE/

I have never heard of Goodyear Diamond Back Goldline tires, it turns out, they are newly made, but made to look old (thank you John!)

the actual significant part of these are the rims, supposedly, they are real 1967 Magnesium Torq Thrusts manufactured by American Racing 

They probably are, they were snapped up for 5200 bucks

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/wheels-277

1970 Porsche 914/6 is on BAT ending in about 24 hours, 3pm west coast time tomorrow... with the optional 15″ Mahle “Gas Burner” mag rims from the factory

both the engine and trans have had recent overhauls, and the current owner bought it in 2021, put 150 miles on it, and now it's got 300 since the repaint, and a total of around 30,333 miles 

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1970-porsche-914-6-100/

Mercedes has come up with something cool.... again! (gotta credit them with the invention of the car, with an internal combustion engine, right?) it's rims, with electrically controlled vanes that actively adjust for aerodynamic drag reduction, or max brake cooling air

the wheels incorporate active aero. 

The vanes reposition themselves based on the car’s drive mode.

When aiming for efficiency, they close off to reduce drag.

For performance, they adjust to allow better air flow to the brakes. 

Individual generators powered by the wheels provide the electricity to run the tiny actuators mounted in their hubs.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-mercedes-amg-gt-xx-concept-has-active-aero-wheels-and-1341-hp

damn shame, these belong in a cool hot rod or racing museum, but I don't have one.

 

If you want to buy one of these, go straight to Ebay, there's a museum quality one, that's OUTSTANDING https://www.ebay.com/itm/226787921331

rescued and restored

 

and that rear rim, was decently garage made

Andre knew about these military wheels... that are unique! They have spikes that flip out for more traction, and flip in for hard smooth roads, the Pavesi P4, produced in Italy in 1918 by Ugo Pavesi. It was the first 4-wheel drive tractor developed in Italy, as well as Italy's first articulated tractor.

 

So this is the photo I posted yesterday, and had no clue what the vehicle was, and had never seen the wheels before, and wondered what the story about them was. 

in 1935 Greece purchased 224 of the tractors from FIAT, which were used to tow Schneidere 105mm and 150mm howitzers, and since the above photo is supposed to have been part of the soldiers time in Greece, that makes sense

https://fstoppers.com/documentary/ve80-war-mechanic-and-amateur-photographers-unseen-1940s-world-war-ii-700693

https://www.autobelle.it/en/a/For_sale_TRATTORE_PAVESI_P4_100_332904.xhtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavesi_P4

Thank you Andre! 

thank you Steve!

I just learned from Steve that I've posted about Pavesi before, but, never realized in those different post, years apart, that the wheels have the spikes/spades that flip over for traction improvement (thank you Steve!) https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/09/pavesi-p4.html

a UK Army mechanic from West Scotland was stationed in Greece during WW2, and after he traded a pack of cigarettes with a German soldier to get a Zeiss Ikon Maximar 207/3, he recorded a lot of moments with his Army buddies (thank you Andre!)

 

the guy above left, is below right

Strange front wheels... I never seen anything like these, but Andre knew what they were! 

https://www.autobelle.it/en/a/For_sale_TRATTORE_PAVESI_P4_100_332904.xhtml 

The spikes of the wheels are supposed to flip out to traverse muddy terrain, and then flip back when not needed. (genius!) 

https://fstoppers.com/documentary/ve80-war-mechanic-and-amateur-photographers-unseen-1940s-world-war-ii-700693

Thanks to Andre for showing me something I've never seen in wheels! 

the C5 Vette had factory optional Magnesium rims in 2004

 

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/wheels.346007/page-7

thanks to CoSC who tipped me off to "Polycast" rims! I don't think I ever heard of Polycast rims, so, here's a post!

above, the Olds style, the space between the bead and the openings was very different from the far flatter rims sold on the aftermarket

Below, the Turbine that was on the IH Scout

Below, Polycast on the 78 Thunderbird (very similar to the 78 Cougar) 

Motor Wheel Corporation of Lansing, Michigan. The long-time OE supplier (formerly owned by Goodyear Tire and Rubber) sought to split the difference between steel-wheel costs and aluminum-wheel style, and finally hit on something with their Polycast wheels.

The patent keeps referring to the face of the wheel as an ornamental overlay, and while that makes it sound dangerously like a hubcap, in some ways it is: Its soft, pliable face is purely ornamental. However, unlike hubcaps and wheel covers, that face is not removable–it is part of the wheel. The face of the wheel is injection-molded with an elastomeric material and could be highly styled; the material reacts with the metal of the wheel and bonds directly to it.

In theory, the factory could tool up an endless array of wheel styles, as the tooling to make it was far less expensive than dedicated steel tooling. An additional benefit was the material’s impact resistance: It did not scratch or chip

Oldsmobile had them stock on the 1971-’72 Delta 88 lineup, known as the Super Stock IV wheel, or by their ordering-sheet option code PE2, or simply as polycast.

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Motor Wheel is best known for making the well-known Pontiac honeycomb wheel, and the Spyder, as well as the Magnum 500

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/polycast-wheels/

https://ihscout.com/product/scout-ii-polycast-turbine-wheels/

https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/mopar-recall-16-wheels-to-polara-cab-70.52878/page-3