My New Wheels

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » March 6, 2008, 2:07 am

I was telling some of you guys in chat sunday night, I picked these up for 100 bucks off craigslist. they are the ols sport package slotted mags, A friend of mine even gave me four nice center caps for them to put on later. I only have one on right now to see how it looks. and need to spend a few hours with a foose ball and polish and some elbow grease on the others as well as new tires when I can AFFORD THEM!!!
Here is what is still on passenger rear :

and now Drivers Rear, I am also going to get some new lugs, I used to have enough for these style but cant seem to remember what I did with them

I will get more pics when I have the rest on and centers on.
Oh the bed is not bolted down so you probably will notice that

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » March 6, 2008, 2:08 am

oh yeah, I have all new brakes and drums for the rear in my Job box where im storing everything for this project now. great way to get organized, thats for sure

Z-MAN · Post by **Z-MAN** » March 6, 2008, 2:36 am

yup Slots are Kewl and don't worry about your bed; my front clip isn't bolted down, but wait, neithers the motor, tranny or much of anything else.

No worries though nice wheels.

Z

64 litl un · Post by **64 litl un** » March 6, 2008, 3:50 am

Make sure you replace those nuts with the correct type before you run it. The nuts for a steel rim will break the studs off at the drum since all the weight is on the studs not the rim. Dont ask me how I know.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » March 6, 2008, 6:28 am

Looks good Shawn just bought a set of AR slots for the 66' mustang 2- 8'' and 2 -6'' for 120.
Charlie

Phil · Post by **Phil** » March 6, 2008, 9:05 am

Good score!
I think the slotted mags looked so good to me I overlooked the rest of this truck's issues.

Check out the centercaps, some PO used 91-up centers on these.
Not a bad look

fordman125 · Post by **fordman125** » March 6, 2008, 9:24 am

The Slots look great and they have a good offset so help with the look of a big wide stance in the pack thats what i plan ot put on my truck.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » March 6, 2008, 9:25 am

Look'n good Shawn.

Store them Innys if you've got room. Guys are always looking for those.

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » March 6, 2008, 10:20 am

Thanks guys, Phil those centers look much like the ones my friend gave me, I cant wait to get them lceaned up and on there. I wil lget new lugs for them ( as I mentioned before) those ones off the steel rims wil lwork, they are acorn type just like what it needs. Just not long enough for a socket to reach out far enough for a socket to get a good bite on them to correctly tourque them. as well they arent capped with chrome

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » March 6, 2008, 1:07 pm

Nice score, you can't go wrong with 5-slots on a Slick!

Here's a shot of mine from the 80's, I will use them again once it's restored.

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » March 6, 2008, 1:14 pm

them are nice.... good deal!

Ya know, I was wondering, I think I got ya right, that you want to use a Power Ball (ie chip foose) to clean them up, right? OR do you actually mean a foose ball, like the table soccer????

jeffw · Post by **jeffw** » March 6, 2008, 1:58 pm

nice upgrade!! be sure to paint your drums black for full effect,, the rust color is sooooo 80's

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » March 6, 2008, 7:39 pm

[/quote]blackagatha"]them are nice.... good deal!

Ya know, I was wondering, I think I got ya right, that you want to use a Power Ball (ie chip foose) to clean them up, right? OR do you actually mean a foose ball, like the table soccer????[/quote]
Its the foose ball that Chip foose recognizes I use it alot, bought the smaller one too its making life so much easier. the US wheels on my 69 were rust spokes, they came out looking almost new. Put a dab of the metal polish on the buffing wheel, (its attached to your drill) and go to town. there are a few other brands I want to try, the one I see sold at the goodguys show looks like a great one also, I can not remember the name but its supposed to be even better.

nice upgrade!! be sure to paint your drums black for full effect,, the rust color is sooooo 80's

I have all new drums, shoes and rebuild kits for the wheel cylinders. I am painting it all a Dark charcoal grey. the frot is this color already that with black on other parts

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » March 6, 2008, 10:05 pm

Got'em on this one too....................

http://www.svt-enthusiast.com/modules/g ... s/1965_427

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » March 6, 2008, 10:18 pm

wow... I had no idea how common/popular with the slick guys those wheels are/were.... they really do look nice.

I was all but decided to buy some round hole milled aluminum rims like that when my dad suggested the full moons.... Now I cant imagine anything else bein right for aggie.

The pretty/ simple rims look really good on the straight sided, shiny paint trucks... I've had a hard time envisioning any RIMS that would look real nice on aggie with her flat black and whatnot.

I love the hubcaps, but alas they're hubcaps. Maybe when I lose one someday (one actually flew off right after I got them, happened on the school campus though and campus security guy found it in the construction zone) I'll upgrade to the screw-on official saltflat style caps...

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » March 6, 2008, 10:26 pm

Slots would look great on Aggie!! Especially if they were Halibrand.

http://www.halibrand.com/index_frames.htm

jeffw · Post by **jeffw** » March 6, 2008, 10:51 pm

aggie does have that COBRA look,, you know the stallone movie,,cool!!
rims do give a truck character,, hubs too,,

Phil · Post by **Phil** » March 6, 2008, 11:58 pm

jakdad wrote:Got'em on this one too....................

http://www.svt-enthusiast.com/modules/g ... s/1965_427

Pure sex

blackagatha · Post by **blackagatha** » March 7, 2008, 12:26 am

That black truck has the Perfect look with those rims... the rest look good too, but Yeah. Pure Sex... HAHAHA LMFAO... I would have never come up with that phrase on my own, you're crazy man... in a cool way.

Anybody ever watch any of the SALAD FINGERS animations on WEEBLSSTUFF.UK? It's great. My favorite part out of all of them, maybe 5-6 now, is in the 1st or 2nd, he says:

"do youu have aany rrusty spooons? thhe feeeliing agaainsst my skiiin iss aalmosst ORGAASMICK!"

extra letters added for phonetics of his statement.... gawd, my buddy salad fingers... hahaha

If any of you dont know what I'm talking about, you need to go look it up...

ALSO look up STRAWBERRY PANCAKES on the same site.... hahaha

shawns fords · Post by **shawns fords** » March 8, 2008, 11:12 pm

I spent about an hour tonight on one wheel, not a complete hour, I had to stop to take care of the puppy and get a drink, only it was not beer

just sodas these days
before

and after

now I will finish the rest when I have more time and start looking for some good tars

My New Wheels

My New Wheels

good buy

aggie

nothing a little elbow Grease and a fooseball cant handle