Allegedly from a Glockler. 
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The $un, moon and $tars for that set up~
The holy grail of wheels? With finned brake drums to boot.
I always thought the knock-off wheels had splined hubs like British wire wheels. Surprised to see 4 lug bolts and the knockoffs.
Yeah, I saw those the other day, and thought they were pretty cool. I (of course!
) love the lightening holes in the wheels, and especially the vent holes in the drums- talk about purpose- built! I believe those are 356A, with the fins running around the circumference of the drums like that, while B drum fins were cast across- of course, I'm partial to this set, with it's vents/cooling holes
I've seen 356 drums without any fins- Pre A? And 356 front brakes have always fascinated me, with their dual cylinder arrangement on each wheel.
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@WOLFGANG posted:I always thought the knock-off wheels had splined hubs like British wire wheels. Surprised to see 4 lug bolts and the knockoffs.
The “lug bolts” are just locating pins, on a flange that looks riveted to the alloy drum. The knock offs hold the wheel to the drum, but the pins drive it. Same as a modern center lock wheel.
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Ended up going for $45K. Sadly, all that remains of Glockler #2.
Interesting story , with lots of "could be" and "maybes"
It was interesting that people thought Porsche would be interested in sponsoring a replica when they never built the original one , and the original one spanked them on the race track.
It will be interesting to see what the new owner builds , I know he has the talent to do it.
(From dlearl's link): "In 1955 the movie The Fast and Furious was released and Glockler No.2 shows up in some of the race scenes. I assume the footage was shot in California in 1953."
Roger Corman made the original The Fast And The Furious.
I was unaware there had been such.
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@edsnova posted:(From dlearl's link): "In 1955 the movie The Fast and Furious was released and Glockler No.2 shows up in some of the race scenes. I assume the footage was shot in California in 1953."
Roger Corman made the original The Fast And The Furious.
I was unaware there had been such.
better link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._Furious_(1954_film)
There's a link to the entire film in it for those with time to burn.
@edsnova posted:(From dlearl's link): "In 1955 the movie The Fast and Furious was released and Glockler No.2 shows up in some of the race scenes. I assume the footage was shot in California in 1953."
Roger Corman made the original The Fast And The Furious.
I was unaware there had been such.
Your link doesn't work. It goes to Wikipedia and says, "Bad Title".
How very odd!
The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ast_and_the_Furious_(1954_film)
But when I paste it in the link box it turns into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ast_and_the_Furious_[1954_film)
—the first parentheses turns into a bracket.
I just edited it twice to correct this, and both time this website somehow changed it back.
Never seen that happen before.
@edsnova posted:—the first parentheses turns into a bracket.
I just edited it twice to correct this, and both time this website somehow changed it back.
Never seen that happen before.
Crap, same here....weird. In any case you can get redirected through the various wikipedia clicks to the '54 version. I guess that would make it a Pre-A movie instead of a B movie.
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This website scans the html of anything you post here and modifies a lot of things it doesn't like.
'Frinstance, try leaving a blank line at the beginning of a post.
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Well I knew that I had seen those rims before ....
If you want to go down the Google image rabbit hole ,
search BMW 328 Rennwagen , there are a few cars with those rims with holes, and many more photos with the center area of the rim the same pressing ,
This is pretty logical as these 328s were the race cars to beat PreWar and they were also used post-war
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@edsnova posted:How very odd!
The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ast_and_the_Furious_(1954_film)
But when I paste it in the link box it turns into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ast_and_the_Furious_[1954_film)
—the first parentheses turns into a bracket.
I just edited it twice to correct this, and both time this website somehow changed it back.
Never seen that happen before.
That’s crazy. Your link worked fine for me. Maybe Mac vs PC issue?
(past tense. I get the same bad link page now. Same with Michael’s “corrected post.” Luckily, I saved it to my YouTube “watch later” list)
@Sacto Mitch posted:.
This website scans the html of anything you post here and modifies a lot of things it doesn't like.
'Frinstance, try leaving a blank line at the beginning of a post.
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It does a lit of weird things. Your posts in particular, Mitch, have randomly placed periods at the beginning and end of the post, and some odd spacing. Even just attempting to quote you above inserted spaces at the beginning and end of your post.
Also, if I trim a quote for clarity - I almost always need to go back on an edit to take a couple of “return” spaces out. Often, after trimming a quote, the site won’t allow me to enter the white again unless I get in the code portion of the edit and put in some text.
A lot can be accomplished in the code portion of the edit, but I doubt it gets used by very many people, since quotes are often done by cut and paste, rather than using the quote feature (probably because the quote feature is so clunky).
It is what it is.
@dlearl476 posted:Very similar. Looks like the spiritual predecessor of our own @ALB added a little extra lightness around the outer circle of holes.
Good eye.I wonder if any other the Glockler “experts” have ever made that connection.
years ago a buddy of mine had a 328 BMW , so I have been around those cars a lot here and in Europe ,
I am barely a "glockler expert" but anyone into 30s-40s-50s German race cars would know ,
there was also some welding on the backing plates to mate the BMW to the VW backing plate so it will mount to the VW rear wheel bearing pattern and the and also the VW bug 3 bolt pattern for the front spindles.
This is not to say that they were NOT on Glockler #2 , but that the were adapted from the BMW parts ,
Porsche did not start the alloy drums until late1951 , early 52 , before using stock VW bug drums with a cast alloy cooling ring .
The VW Drag racing guys would built a "STF motor" to try things out ,
STF was "sweep the floor" and use whatever was laying around 