Re: What wheels are these?
I'm gonna say it's a tonner. Note the 3 stake pockets, not two. I have owned five of them and four were listed as a 3/4 ton. The 3/4 ton was a very short lived variation of the tonner family. It had 16" wheels with a wide 5 pattern and a full floating rear hub. The tonner, much more common, had 17" multi-piece wheels and you can see the raised ridge behind the hub cap. Behind that hubcap is a 5 on 6 7/8" bolt circle with 3/4" studs/nuts, and a full floating axle. I honestly don't have any personal experience with the 3/4 ton, so I could be missing something. And those caps do look like the baby moons from, JC Whitney, Western Auto and others. This is a 17" tonner wheel and 7.50 x 17 for compatison.
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