[FWDLK] Wire Wheels AKA: Kelsey-Hayes Wheels

["richard main" <richardmain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr. Josh <PlymouthV8@xxxxxxx> :

You should have said wire wheels.  I'm picking up four for me on Sunday.
You want a set of four for you?  What's your budget?  They're original
Plymouth wirewheels, need a little cleaning up.  I'm told as many as eight
are available.  I saw at least five in the tall grass myself.  But heh, how
often do you see original wirewheels?

Richard

Oh, I updated my 1956 Plymouth Fury page with some '55 Belvedere stuff:

http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/richardmain/56_Fury_Page.html






At 3:59 PM -0500 7/21/98, Terry & Andree Hoeman wrote:
>Kelsey-Hayes manufacturing company has long been given credit for the wire
>wheels which were available on Chrysler products beginning in 1953.  The
>point that i was making was that every wire wheel i have ever seen >from
>Chrysler products of those years actually has motor wheel stamped on the
>rim underneath the tire.  Motorwheel seems to have been the main supplier
>of wheels to Chrysler from what i have seen on various wheels in my mess
>here.
>
>Just took 25 tires to the city dump on Tire Amnesty Day last weekend and
>noted that a number of the wheels had motor wheel on them when the tire
>had been removed.  Thought I was doing good with the 25 but I was humbled
>with all of the BIG trucks and trailers there with full loads of wheels.
>City of 20,000 put 30,000 tires in on one day.  Few farmers in the area
>helped get the total up.
>
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>From:   Richard Main[SMTP:main2@xxxxxxxx]
>Sent:   Tuesday, July 21, 1998 5:11 PM
>To:     tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:        Re: [FWDLK] Kelsey-Hayes Wheels
>
>Splain it to me Lucy, what's a Kelsey-Hayes wheels ?
>
>Richard
>
>
>
>At 8:40 AM -0900 7/21/98, PlymouthV8@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>>If anyone Knows of where to find, or has some Kelsey-Hayes wheels in good
>>condition Please email me....
>>Thanks,
>>Josh <PlymouthV8@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>*********