I don't have recommendations, but I did some comparison shopping
last fall (when I had money, now I don't :-)
You can buy either bolt-on or spline-driven wheels. However, if
you buy spline-driven you really should buy new spline extensions;
the old ones on your car are probably worn, and they in turn wear your
new wheels much too fast. The difference in appearance is small.
The advantage of spline-driven Minilites is that its easy to switch
to wire wheels, if you have a set. Since you have old, worn wheels I
wouldn't recommend putting them on new spline extensions. The big
disadvantage of the spline-driven wheels is the cost.
Here's what I found last fall ($1 U.S. = 0.6 UK). All are advertised
as Minilite replicas. There are several other sources I checked
but I don't have my notes.
Rimmer TRF Victoria
Bolt-on (4) 500 880 760
w/ lugnuts
Spline-driven (4) 1040 ? 1700
w/ new extensions
At 09:00 PM 3/29/99 -0800, Francis Dupuis wrote:
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>I have recently purchased a 1966 TR4A, which is running on it's original
>wire wheels. As I intend to drive the car frequently, I am looking to
>replace these with suitable minilite copies. Does anyone have any
>comments/recommendations on the different types available? There is a
>supplier called Select Sales in Florida that the chaps at the Lotus Club in
>Chicago mentioned. Has anyone ordered from them?
>
>thanks
>
>
>
>Francis Dupuis
>1966 TR4A - IRS (wedgewood)
>1982 TR7
>
>NO ARCHIVE
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>
Cliff Hansen
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