Wheel ID please? Bonus Prairie pics.

[pandamonium]

Hello my knowledgeable friends...

 

Can anyone help ID the wheels I had to put on the back of the Prairie due to a puncture / royally fecked tyre?

 

They are 4 4/5" and I've had two suggestions so far - Austin A40 and Austin Westminster.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

[vulgalour]

I'd've thought Triumph or Reliant, they've got a lot of dish for a hubcap bearing steel.

[Lankytim]

Triumph 2000 MK1.

[pandamonium]

Sounds like a good shout Lankytim!

[DVee8]

They look like the ones on my 68 Daimler V8.

[Angrydicky]

I'm pretty sure they're not Austin, the bits the hubcaps grip onto are wrong. Also, far too much dish!

[TRW]

Austin FX4Q taxi perhaps?

[Ratdat]

Too wide for Mk1 2000 I'd have thought. They look like Scimitar ones to me.

[RedSparrow]

Deffo look like BL items. They look like Allegro ones but chunkier.

 

Edit: Ah yeah you're right. Must be Scimitar.

[brickwall]

Scimitar.

[pandamonium]

Whatever they are, I need two more!!

 

Oh, and they are 14" not 13", if that makes any difference.....

[holbeck]

I'm not the world's biggest expert on scimitar's, but I think the steel wheels are of a vented type (certainly those fitted to SE4 scimitars were).

[jonathan_dyane]

They look like the wrong offset whatever they're off...

[KruJoe]

Aye, before you spunk your load on another pair, stick these two on the front and go for a drive. You may decide it suddenly feels like an absolute pup, so might not be your brightest idea.

[Richard]

They don't have much in the way of ventilation for disc brakes, I think they are from something that had drums on the front.

[michael1703]

Not scimitar as scimitar wheels don't have hubcap ears, too much dish for most of cars mentioned so far

 

They look a bit for consul too

 

Cortina escort?

[Richard]

Cortinas and Escorts didn't have 14" wheels.

[brickwall]

Wolseley 1500 or Riley1500?

[Lankytim]

They can't be ford or reliant, Nissans uses the same stud pattern as a load of BL shite.

[Ratdat]

They can't be ford or reliant, Nissans uses the same stud pattern as a load of BL shite.

 

Scimitars are the same as Nissan... 4x114.3 (4x4.5"), but michael1703 is right about the hubcap ears so they probably aren't Scimitar.

 

It is possible they could be from an older American car as some also used that bolt pattern. I think Corvairs did as well as six pot Mustangs and there's probably others.

[M'coli]

Why do I get the impression from the pictures they're not a J-section rim, and quite possibly are not meant to be used without tubes fitted?

[michael1703]

Most wheels I can think of that have those hubcap ears are 5 stud

 

It looks like a bigger version of a mini wheel in style

 

It looks like it would take a chrome hubcap about 8 inch in diameter

 

Vauxhall viva?

[michael1703]

[Des]

Would they be MGBSherpa?

[M'coli]

Viva's PCD is 4".

[Lankytim]

If its a 14 then I don't think it can be a triumph 2000 mk1 as I think they were all 13s.

 

I'm still sticking with triumph though, maybe a mk2?

[twosmoke300]

Are they not some old random trailer / caravan fitment ?

[pandamonium]

For reference, a Ford hubcap fits onto the middle.