Accessory disc wheels for the Model A ?

[Special Coupe Frank]

I've seen accessory hood vent doors, a la '32 Chevy on a Model A...

Were there any accessory disc wheels, such as used by Chevrolet, Packard, Graham, Nash, Studebaker, Dodge Brothers, etc...

Any pics of a Model A so-equipped ?

[ctlikon0712]

I have seen accessory wood spoke wheels....

[Special Coupe Frank]

Originally Posted by ctlikon0712

I have seen accessory wood spoke wheels....

And certain Canadian AA trucks came with them...

[CarlG]

I think these wheels would be just the thing for my Pickup

[Special Coupe Frank]

Originally Posted by CarlG

I think these wheels would be just the thing for my Pickup

Carl,

Is that the super-duper A from Finland (?) ?

( The wheels do look nice ! )

SC Frank

[d.j. moordigian]

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I think those(wooden wheels) are billet Aluminum...

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by Special Coupe Frank

Is that the super-duper A from Finland (?) ?

( The wheels do look nice ! )

Yep, that's the one!

[John Stone]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned "General Jumbo's". There was a set in Wichita but they are long gone. Sorry, no picture. Maybe this will jar someones memory and they can find a picture.

[CarlG]

Originally Posted by John Stone

I'm surprised that no one mentioned "General Jumbo's". There was a set in Wichita but they are long gone. Sorry, no picture. Maybe this will jar someones memory and they can find a picture.

Picture here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=674429

and here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-RARE-A...#ht_1213wt_721

[Bob-A]

In 1929 Chevrolets came stock with 20" disc wheels. Wooden spoke or 'artillary' 20" wheels were available from the factory as an option. Later in '29 20" wire wheels become available from the factory. 1929 was the only year for 20" wheels on the Bow-Tie cars. 1928 were 21" and 1930-31 were 19". 1930 was the last year for disc wheels on cars and 1931 was the last year for optional wooden spoke wheels, I beleive.

Bob-A

[mot]

heres a nice set on Jack Noxons car
this car is a driver,hes been all over the USA in it
tom

[mot]

heres a close up of the wheel

[Special Coupe Frank]

Originally Posted by Bob-A

In 1929 Chevrolets came stock with 20" disc wheels. Wooden spoke or 'artillary' 20" wheels were available from the factory as an option. Later in '29 20" wire wheels become available from the factory. 1929 was the only year for 20" wheels on the Bow-Tie cars. 1928 were 21" and 1930-31 were 19". 1930 was the last year for disc wheels on cars and 1931 was the last year for optional wooden spoke wheels, I beleive.

Bob-A

The latest Chevy I have seen wearing wooden artillery wheels was a '27 (?)

I don't think I've ever run across so much as a picture of a '29-'30 Chevy six with wooden artilleries...

I think Chevy started offering discs in '24 or '25.

First Chevy wires were in '29, which are scarce as hen's teeth, and look much like a Model A wire, with the lug-nuts exposed. 1930 and later wires had the lug-nuts concealed under the hub-cap.


So, no solid discs for the Model A ?

[Brad in Germany]

Michelin made solid disk rims specifically for the Model a Ford. I have a set of five of them that I am offering for sale at Hershey right now @ space CE-74 and CE-75. Make me an offer that my wife will like and they are yours (they are from her late father's garage in Denmark).

Fordially,
Brad in Hershey

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

I always wondered what the Dunlop wire wheels from an M.G.-TC would look like on a '28 or a '29 Model A, complete with the knock offs?
I have had a wheel fetish since I worked in a wrecking yard in the '50's.
Interchange books first appeared then, exciting! Customer asked for front hub bearings for a '32 Pontiac, parts house didn't list them. I secretly scanned my book & sold him 3 sets, already cleaned, packed, rolled in foil. (They were the same as many later Chevrolets! and I got DOUBLE PRICE for such RARE bearings!) Seriously, I learned SO many great skills working there. The interchange books even gave some slight modifications to make something fit. I may have the brands wrong, but I remember something like this, A Plymouth starter will fit a Kaiser-Frazier by drilling the mounting holes 1/16" larger! Bill W.
(Would it be out of order to start a thread about skills some of us folks learned working in wrecking yards?)

Juke Box Johnny,
Do they call them "Breaking Yards" in the U.K? I recently found out what an Articulating Lorrie was! I know some of the British terms from years of Jag. repair. They don't seem to have a DIFFERENT term for "That Damned Oil Leak!"
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I heard that the custom of drinking WARM beer was because Lucas made their refrigerators!! Bill W.

[Bob-A]

Special Coupe Frank,

I had a '29 Chevy in high school that had the 20" wooden spoke wheels. The one I own now has the disc wheels. Also, in the book "A Pictorial History of Chevrolet 1929-1939" it shows a '31 Chevy 4-dr sedan with 19" wooden spoke wheels.

Brad In Hershey,

I sent you an email via FordBarn pm service.

Bob-A

[Special Coupe Frank]

Originally Posted by Bob-A

Special Coupe Frank,

I had a '29 Chevy in high school that had the 20" wooden spoke wheels. The one I own now has the disc wheels. Also, in the book "A Pictorial History of Chevrolet 1929-1939" it shows a '31 Chevy 4-dr sedan with 19" wooden spoke wheels.

Brad In Hershey,

I sent you an email via FordBarn pm service.

Bob-A

My Dad drove the family's 1930 Chevy Standard Coupe in high-school in the late 1940's - it had discs.(Last know whereabouts were with an Aunt in Lakeland Florida in the early 1960's).

When I was in college, Dad and my Uncle Mike went-in together on a '30 Chevy Special Sedan that had wires and dual sidemounts.

I kind of prefer the disc wheels in the '29-'30 Chevys... although I wouldn't refuse a '29 with wires...

SC Frank

[Special Coupe Frank]

Originally Posted by Brad in Germany

Michelin made solid disk rims specifically for the Model a Ford. I have a set of five of them that I am offering for sale at Hershey right now @ space CE-74 and CE-75. Make me an offer that my wife will like and they are yours (they are from her late father's garage in Denmark).

Fordially,
Brad in Hershey

Brad any chance of grabbing some pics and sharing them with the Barn community ?

Thanks,

SC Frank

[Bob-A]

Special Coupe Frank,

I was in high school back in the late 60's when I had my original '29 Chevy coach (Tudor in Ford speak). I put about 10K miles on that car unfortunately she got wrecked out from under me: smashed in the rear.
The one I have now is almost an exact duplicate except for the disc wheels. I prefer the wooden spokes, I just like the "artillary" style. On the 20" Chevy wire wheels I have heard that you have to be careful with them. They supposedly rust from the inside out real bad on the curled over rim lips. Worst then the "A" 21" wheels.

Bob-A

[redmodelt]

I had a 1928 Chevrolet commercial chassis, car chassis that came without body for installing your own. It had wood wheels, don't recall what size they were.