Wheel adapters & redrilled drums.

take a look at these, anybody know the adapter maker...

next... why would someone spend money plugging and changing the pattern on a set of drums???? wouldnt that cost a bit?

I mean i guess they could have changed their mind on wheels but...

o, and what size 5 lug does that look like?

More than likly those are 4X130 VW to GM 5 lug.


Jerome

Yup, those are Chevy all right. In the 70's people used them on their VW's to run Cragers, in the 80's people used them on their wide body 356 replicas to run Centerlines. In the 90's people threw them away.

The problem is that they work themselves loose no matter WHAT lock-tite you use, that stupid little "cam-lug" is always a weak point, and they are very cheaply made and difficult to true up so the front wheels usually wobble at certain speeds. With any wobble comes vibration which works at the lugs until they come off.

Be safe, toss them out.

TC

Yup, Had those on my VW Dune Buggy in the 70's to run BIG Chevy rims so I could cruise the sand out to the Duxbury Lighthouse........Later they went away with the Dune Buggy and I look at the lighthouse from the beach parking lot......

When I was a kid, my Dad had a friend, Al Cipaloni I think . . . WOW, I'm SURPRISED that I remembered his name . . . anyway, he had a strange panel truck thing with what he called "air plane" wheels on it, and they used to take me with them on that beach when we supposed to be a church.

I'd forgotten ALL ABOUT that.

Thanls for the memory Gordon! I owe you one.

TC

so are there disc setups that i can use to put chevy 5 lugs on?

I did it by buying drums and disks drilled for 5X130 Porsche pattern a and redrilling them to the 5X110 pattern I needed.

Jerome

I remember a Dodge Power Wagon type of panel truck that used to be out at the Duxbury Light from time to time and it had really big wheels and tires, very similar to farm implement tires. On the other hand, I had a really light VW based buggy, and once I let most of the air out of the tires it would easily scoot across the sand (especially the silt pit just as you started out the trail).

Sunday Mornings were a popular time out there - I guess a lot of surf-casters were escaping church and going fishing........A couple of other good spots were out on Sandy Neck and on the Bay side of Orleans.

My buggy received the very last 2-wheel-drive beach access sticker at the National Sea Shore before they banned them. I had been an MBBA member and a regular sand cruiser and overnighter out there so I guess they trusted me to not dig up the beach grass.......So instead, they allowed big 4WD trucks and SUV's in that could REALLY dig stuff up!

gn

Gordon, you're KILLIN' ME!

The MBBA . . . Massachusetts Beach Buggy Association, right? Back when a "Beach Buggy" was anything with fat funny tires and a fishing pole strapped to the side with pipe hangers.

WOW, I remember driving in the back of my parents Chevy beach wagon and seeing a similar (I thought so, anyway) wagon with what looked to me like cartoon tires on it . I nearly climbing out of the window to get closer to it. After that, every time we went out for a drive and got farther South than Weymouth (MA) I would start looking for those MBBA stickers on the backs of cars/trucks . . .

Cut it out, man! You're just killing me with all these long forgotten memories . . . The MBBA! I was sure that the brain cell containing THAT memory had died LONG ago!

TC