A different kind of wheel survey

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

YO SHOOTER65, Krylon must come in your favorite color? A roll of 3M 2" blue paint tape and your Sunday News Paper on Monday and you'll be grinnin' like your neighborz cat after he just devoured the last chipmunk in the county. Go get 'um, Jer

 

[shooter65]

Nice trailer!

Leave it alone. With a wheel with a hub cap, you aren't going to be able to use those Bearing Buddy grease caps as easily, therefore, it might not get done.

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Thanks, the trailer center caps have a removable cover to easily access the grease fittings so I don't "think"?? it will be a problem, especially with my OCD.

 

[LocuMob]

Nice trailer, wish I had one like that!

 

[rapidtrans]

Paint’s cheap.
Gloss Black wheels would look just fine on that trailer.

 

[413]

It reminded me of my Corvette forum days when (true story) someone asked if his certain color Vette would clash with his state's vanity plate color.
I have never forgotten that and is reason #1,655 I couldn't deal with the Corvette community.

Sorry for being so cynical.

I knew a guy who hated blue cars because it looked bad with the red taillight lenses! What a nut job dude.

True story. He would still go look at the blue car even though he would never buy a blue one.

 

[300rag]

I knew a guy who hated blue cars because it looked bad with the red taillight lenses! What a nut job dude.

True story. He would still go look at the blue car even though he would never buy a blue one.

I solved that problem...

 

[300rag]

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I'm underwhelmed by the wheels and eventually want to improve them. I'm looking for suggestions.

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I say paint them for now, then save up for the aluminum wheels.

 

[live4theking]

The guy that designed a tilt bed trailer with a dovetail must have never loaded anything.

 

[SuperDave]

If you're gonna dress it up, go for broke! Flaming paint job, a hood scoop or a shiny chrome blower sticking out of the front tool box, front spoiler and an audacious rear wing on stilts out back, kinda like an outlaw dirt tracker.

All kidding aside, paint 'em rattle can gloss black with beauty rings and forget about center hubs, they'll make it difficult to access the zerk grease fittings. Maybe some chrome lug nuts, anything more is overkill.

 

[Snotty]

The wheels are not as important as the tires that are on them. Make sure the rubber is rated so that 10,000 pound limit is met when combined. Get the newer Trailer tires in 14 ply, not the standard 10.

 

[The Goose]

It reminded me of my Corvette forum days when (true story) someone asked if his certain color Vette would clash with his state's vanity plate color.
I have never forgotten that and is reason #1,655 I couldn't deal with the Corvette community.

Sorry for being so cynical.

Thanks for that LoL!!!
Way back when my brother came home all excited about his new maroon Az plates on our green 77 Mazda rotary pickup truck. I didn’t get it and he kept saying look how good it looks. We finally figured out that day that he was red - green colorblind.

 

[GregG48203]

trim rings and center caps

I certainly wouldn't put my best wheelcovers on the trailer, in the event that they were damaged, lost or stolen. Perhaps trim rings and a Mopar-specific cap:

 

[Wildaugust]

That's a nice trailer. I hope to have one someday.

That said, it's your trailer, but I think those wheels are nicer than what I see on a lot of cars. The only problem is that that wheel style has been "used to death" on pick-up trucks, especially Fords so, a lot of people are sick of them. So what? It's a trailer and if it were mine, I would rather spend the money on my car or for cruisin' gas than on new trailer wheels.

This is actually kind of funny, because a few years back I was looking at some nice custom wheels that were being sold as trailer wheels. They had a 5x4.5" bolt pattern and I thought they would look nice on my car. I remember thinking that being trailer wheels, they should be pretty strong. I still love the unique style they had, but the deal breaker was that they were only available in a 6" width and I wanted a 15x7" wheel.

 

[Big_John]

My first trailer had Chrysler New Yorker wheel covers. A pair of 73's on one side and a pair of some other year (I don't remember) on the other. You only see one side at a time, so all was good.

I lost one wheel cover though...

I bought a '72 Fury county sheriff's car for parts and was towing it home and happened to notice a full size wheel cover sitting on the side of the road... Just for laughs, I stopped and sure enough, it matched the one I had the year before.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

My first trailer had Chrysler New Yorker wheel covers. A pair of 73's on one side and a pair of some other year (I don't remember) on the other. You only see one side at a time, so all was good.

I lost one wheel cover though...

I bought a '72 Fury county sheriff's car for parts and was towing it home and happened to notice a full size wheel cover sitting on the side of the road... Just for laughs, I stopped and sure enough, it matched the one I had the year before.

Herez one for you John. In the '70s + '80s in Michigan we lived on a gravel road 4 miles straight off the end of a asphalt road that we traveled at Highway speed. Luckily we had a Mopar wrecking yard 'bout 15 miles from where we lived. My dear wife traveled with two different wheel covers on each side of her DD for many years and never picked up on it 'til a Car-Bud of mine that waz an engineer at Chrysler pointed it out one day. We started running aluminum wheel on all the Mopar's shortly after that and still do to this day. And I can still remember some of her blue vocabulary she laid on me that I never knew she knew. Like you said, You can only see one side at ah time rite? Still LMAO, Jer

 

[rapidtrans]

Veering even farther off course.......Dad started ordering road or rally wheels on his cars after the wire cover were stolen off his New Yorker at Tiger Stadium years ago.

 

[Big_John]

Herez one for you John. In the '70s + '80s in Michigan we lived on a gravel road 4 miles straight off the end of a asphalt road that we traveled at Highway speed. Luckily we had a Mopar wrecking yard 'bout 15 miles from where we lived. My dear wife traveled with two different wheel covers on each side of her DD for many years and never picked up on it 'til a Car-Bud of mine that waz an engineer at Chrysler pointed it out one day. We started running aluminum wheel on all the Mopar's shortly after that and still do to this day. And I can still remember some of her blue vocabulary she laid on me that I never knew she knew. Like you said, You can only see one side at ah time rite? Still LMAO, Jer

There was a custom painted Torino that belonged to a guy I went to school with. Tasteful (for the 70's) and done well by the owner. I'd see him at the drags all the time or around town.

I could never put my finger on what it was, but the car always looked slightly different to me.

One day, I watched him drive by as I sat on my trailer (car trailer content!) at the drags and I figured it out. The scalloped stripes were orange on one side and green on the other.

I was talking to him about it and he said that not many people had ever noticed it.

 

[CBODY67]

Most of the car/boat trailer builders around here used to use Ford pickup take-off wheels on their trailers. With appropriate trailer tires on the wheels.

It would be nice to have the wheels match the car on the trailer, but it's really not needed. Considering that the trailer is "a tool" to use, which can see some wear and tear.

IF you want to do something to make it more distinctive and not spend a lot of money, some spray cans of GM "Medium Graystone Metallic", 1978 pikcup truck color, or something of that nature, can do just that. Wash them in brake clean, tack off, then shoot the spray paint. A bit darker in color than the "dull" silver on the '71 Z/28 wheels, for reference. A nice darker metallic color that looks good. Ought to be a similar Chrysler darker gray color, I suspect, to "keep it in the family". Might even add a red double pin stripe around the edge of the rims, too?

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[bluefury361]

I would be more concerned with the tires. If it came with trailer tires, like Carlisle's, I would get rid of them ASAP. All those "gaters" on the side of the road usually come from them. They tend to blow apart long before they wear out.
A set of light truck tires is my choice.

 

[Snotty]

I would be more concerned with the tires. If it came with trailer tires, like Carlisle's, I would get rid of them ASAP. All those "gaters" on the side of the road usually come from them. They tend to blow apart long before they wear out.
A set of light truck tires is my choice.

Same subject is discussed in the recent edition of Trailer Life.

Which, by the way, has a feature on a '59 Travel Trailer being towed by a '61 Newport!