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RE: Wolfrace

To: triumphs@autox.team.net (Triumphs)
Subject: RE: Wolfrace
From: Daren Allder <dallder@bicronne.tcom.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 8:57:00 +0100
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Tom Tweed wrote:
> I don't know what `Wolfrace' wheels look like, do they look like Pana-
sports ?....

Dunno what Panasports look like, but...
Ah, nostalgia!  Back in the seventies (when I was a lad, and all this   
used to be fields...) Wolfrace wheels were THE custom wheel.  If you were   
going to have a "real" custom car, you had the candy paint / murals, jack   
up kit, possibly a chromed Jaguar IRS rear axle with those wonderful UJs,   
the red dralon interior with the gold tassles etc etc.  then you HAD to   
have either 5 spoke chrome wheels (e.g. SS Cragar) or "Wolfies" which   
were the most common five-slot alloys (or "slot-mags") -  y'know:  dished   
alloys with five round-ended slots cut through them.  Most common 'cos   
you could buy a set of 5 1/2" x 13" for your Cortina, Escort, Maxi(!)   
etc. from just about anywhere, including those mail order catalogues that   
sold everything from toys to jewellery to lawnmowers to clothes (Farah   
s-t-r-e-t-c-h slacks anyone?).

Poifect for your TR7 with the 8-track player.

Regards,

Daren Allder,   Reading, England
(1300 engined) '66 Herald 1200 convertible  

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