Does this mean that all of us running wings are breaking the law?
LM
----- Original Message -----
From: HFC <froggi@cdsnet.net>
To: spidgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: 05 May, 1999 9:37 AM
Subject: Knock-Off Wheels
> Fellow Spridgeteers,
>
> The employment of knock-off wheels, state side, was quite limited. From
> my personal experience, the 1965 Corvette aluminum wheel option had
> ko's, my heavily optioned '67 roadster did not. The wheels were
> visually the same, but the later cars bolted on in the conventional
> manner.
>
> My MkIII Sprite, HAN8L-58497 and built between January and February
> 1966, has knock-off wire wheels.
>
> To quote Terry Horler "Wire wheeled cars bound for North America changed
> from 'eared' spinners to octagonal nuts during 1966 to comply with
> safety regulations, effectively leaving only right-hand drive cars with
> 'eared' spinners." And finally "...home market cars being the last to
> change to hexagon nuts in 1969."
>
> WFO Herb
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