Need some help with wheel decision..

[byebye67]

hey evilzee, nice find! SW, maybe even something along the lines of Bogarts? Just throwing it out there.

[Streetking]

Originally Posted by evilzee28

Hi SW, I'm fitting Minilte style wheels to my '69. Here's a link to a site that makes Minilite style wheels right up to 19" x 12" or 18"x13.5", Hope that helps. Oh yeah, they're in Britain. If you need help with them let me know

http://www.superlite-wheels.com/wheelpage.asp?cat=2

here they are, albeit 15"s on my race car.

Wow, I didn't know that was your car! I have seen pictures of it on alot of the Pontiac sites for along time. Very cool car. Thanks for the link, I will let you know.

Jeff, thanks, Kinesis are really nice wheels. I have delt with Alan over there for years.

SW

[G-Body]

Wow would love to have your problems of making decisions lol great looking rides some of my personal favoriates! for the TA id stay with the TT'2 i like the gray looks real aggressive but cant go wrong with polished, the reason i say that is they fit the erea better the Fikse look great on the vette way nice two different animals, remeber in Thrust we trust !! lol

[Payton King]

I like the mesh look...forgelines like on "Penny" on that body style. Satin or gold.

[Diognes56]

All the wheels suggested would look great on your car. Just thought I would throw these out there. Similar style to the Jlines and FM10s.



David

[rwhite692]

It would be neat (if unlikely) to see someone design a modernized interpretation of the original honeycomb TA wheel center...in an 18" 3pc forged wheel.

[fatlife]

Originally Posted by Diognes56

All the wheels suggested would look great on your car. Just thought I would throw these out there. Similar style to the Jlines and FM10s.



David

These would look good with a brushed or anodized center grey. Or just leave the car with the grey TT's as it looks great as-is with them. Don't you have a mustang to work on?

BTW the polished TT"s look awful IMO on that car

[Steve Chryssos]

I like to stand at the front corner of a car and look down the side to "see" the profile of the car. Then I try to match the cross section of the wheel to the car.
For example, a 67 Chevy II looks best with flat spokes, while a 68 Camaro--or your T/A for that matter--looks best with a slightly curved spoke profile.

Most cars have sharp, crisp edges and the edges of the wheel spokes should match. Your T/A has mostly rounded edges such as the way that your deck lid flows into your rear quarters or your shaker scoop.

A set of modern Mini-Lites would be hard to beat while the flat spokes of the Fikse FM5 might look bland surrounded by all those curves.


..or at least that is how I was taught by someone who knows their stuff.

[zbugger]

I have a bad habit of thinking certain wheels look good on certain cars. Like, for example, your car. Personally, I think the Fikse Profil 13 would look great on the car. For the finish, I'd say the Techni Polish finish or the Speed Silver finish would look great.

Did I mention I still hate you? GOSH!!!!

[fatlife]

You guys need to think out of the box a little more, SW already has Fikse's and such on his 69 camaro. This car needs something a little more less trendy and more geared towards something that goes along with the stock appearing outside which is immaculate IMO! The goldflake 3 piece wheel has already been thought of and done on a few "bandit" PT replicas already done or in the works, its a good idea though and would look good regardless, but I don't think they are it. I bet SW already has something on his mind. I think the minilites could be the trick if you could get a decent "dish" with them. This car needs something very tastefull, its a hard balance to keep. Everyone has already commented on how great the grey center TT"s looked, they really made the car look complete. I think I would stay somewhere along the lines of that look. But who knows either way I bet whatever wheel goes on there will look good