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Offline Chris

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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2009, 05:43:52 PM »
Hey Dan can you share the recipe for your current rim and tire set up... it looks pretty awsome!

I know you switched to disc brakes, but did you have to switch or would've your rims worked with the drums?

I plan on switching over to discs but this is a project that'll need to wait till next year and I want to do the rims and tires this year.

Thanks,

Chris
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2009, 07:39:10 PM »
Chris - thanks for the compliment.
The car has 17" American Racing Torque Thrust II's (TT2's). The fronts are 7" with 4" backspacing while the rears are 8" with 4 3/4" backspacing. Those are both standard backspacing for those wheels so they don't have that custom pricing. The tires are 245-50 rear and 215-50 front. The rears are actually about the same diameter as my old 225-70/14's.
The drum brakes would have worked fine but I wanted the extra grab of the disc's and the dual master cylinder. I bought the whole brake setup at The Parts Place.
Just so you know, a set of 15" TT2's would run about $750 from the place I purchased mine. But then again, they don't have that nice period look of the rally wheels. They'd look great on your post car when its done though.
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2009, 05:10:07 PM »
Anybody have a couple correct 14" rims for mine?  I have 2 or 3, need a full set. 
I do not want to get dinged at the nats for the wheel modification again.
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2009, 06:46:37 PM »
Dan

www.dbtires.com  diamondback tires LS5 Redline 189.00 each

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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2009, 07:40:26 PM »
Tom - good find. That's sneaky burying it in the fine print.
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2009, 09:07:47 PM »
You guys probably know of Mike in Calli...well, he had this 65 for sale in Oct 2006.
Custom made wheels using Buick centers. 16 or 17" rims?  Expensive but nice!
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2009, 09:12:25 PM »
Thats funny I have the same picture!!
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2009, 09:28:28 PM »
Quote from: Joe65SkylarkGS on March 29, 2009, 09:12:25 PM
Thats funny I have the same picture!!

Ha! yeah, I troll eBay just for the pictures!
Mike has 2 more 65's for sale now.... Both Very nice cars, priced in the mid teens.
I think his hobby is buying and selling 65's!
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2009, 09:40:05 PM »
He is a dealer. Not a hobbiest. >:(
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2009, 10:07:02 PM »
I found this site today..

http://www.wheelsmaster.com/rt_simcar.jsp?req=newSearch&carId=82&carYear=1965&carMake=Buick&carModel=Skylark

Pretty cool!

I'm kinda checking out the Boyd and Foose wheels right now.  It looks like if you shop around right, you can buy a set of 17"s with tires for under $1800.

According to this site, you can go all the way up to a 20" (not for me)

That is tall and wide!  They guarantee it to fit on this site.

 20'' packages for 1965 Buick Skylark 
  Package Price 
    Mazzi Krank Chrome wheels     
20x8.5 ET18 PCD 5x120.65 (5x4.75)
 
    Nitto     
NeoGen low profile Ultra High Performance tires
235/30ZR20 88W (650x235mm)


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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2009, 10:15:44 PM »
I got these for 1100. Coy's one piece billets.
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2009, 10:33:06 PM »
Joe,

If you wouldn't mind can you tell us you rim and tire sizes with offsets?

They look really nice!

Chris
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #27 on: April 01, 2009, 12:36:55 AM »
Thanks to everyone for your help. 

Today I made my decison and ordered them. 

We'll see what they look like in about 7 - 10 days.

I went with the polished Coy's Series A rims.  I really debated polished vs. chrome but decided the polished would look better with the white paint.  They ended up being about $75 cheaper per rim also not plated.

Rear Rims - 18" - 7" - 4.25 back space       General Tires P235 50
Front Rims - 17" - 7" - 4.25 back space      General Tires P225 50

The rear should sit about 1" higher than the front.

Bought direct from Coy's website $1450 total cost (shipping, mounting, balancing, lug nuts)

Can't wait to try on my new shoes.. pictures to follow!

Chris
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2009, 07:10:01 PM »
Congratulations Chris !!! Those should look really nice on your car. Did you go with the Exclaim UHP tires ?
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Re: Buying new shoes for my baby
« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2009, 07:31:49 PM »
Wow. Thats awsome. I went over this a few times but here it goes.

I have a 68 a body rear in my 65 lark so, I had Coy make me the best outer offset.
Being the rear is wider, he couldn't give me the correct offset inside and out so,
I ordered 4 7 in wide one piece billets and then I had the rear rims split and added 2 inches. Now I have 17x7's and 17x9's.

I'm sure you will be happy with them. Mine are 2 years old and look as good as the day i got them.
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