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I like minites, but they really don’t suit a lot of the vehicles they’re fitted to. They certainly suit 60s cars more so than later. The look nice 10” on a classic mini, but the Clubman needs a different treatment - 4 spoke revolutions is my personal favourite for the flat front mini.

those dished spiderwebs on the Bitter look the nuts.

6 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Extremely dependent on the car, but Mini Specials are definitely one that springs to mind immediately.

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Also, surely there's someone else in this world who thinks Primula Yellow is a FANTASTIC colour on the Mini shell?? 

yes the original Mini Sprite in yellow was particularly well thought out, those wheels are also pretty nice and suit the black bumper minis well.

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Saab I think are up there for the nicest looking wheel trim award.  Loved the look of these, especially on a dark car.

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Being stainless steel all they asked for was a quick skim over with some Brasso and a good wax once a year or so.  It's a car where I'd honestly rather just have steel wheels with those trims on rather than bothering with alloys.

Though I am also particularly partial to the Starfish alloys from Jag in the 80s.

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The dish on the fronts doesn't half collect brake dust though, but at least they're easy to clean - unlike a lot of designs from this era.

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Alfa style teledial wheels are lovely. Lots of old cars had fantastic hubcaps. Volvo 240s in particular had brilliant chrome hub caps. I like that sort of thing on a classic. Saab three spoke ally wheels also lovely. Turbine-style alloy wheel is one of my favourites. The Jaaag XJ 220 had brilliant wheels. X300 XJR wheels also brilliant, much the same sort of look.

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10 minutes ago, Broadsword said:

Alfa style teledial wheels are lovely. Lots of old cars had fantastic hubcaps. Volvo 240s in particular had brilliant chrome hub caps. I like that sort of thing on a classic. Saab three spoke ally wheels also lovely. Turbine-style alloy wheel is one of my favourites. The Jaaag XJ 220 had brilliant wheels. X300 XJR wheels also brilliant, much the same sort of look.

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220 wheels were pretty cool.

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6 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Holy thread resurrection!

Some wheels definitely are look good on one particular car and naff on others.

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I know these were fitted to many 70's fords - I think they're either Ghia or Sport alloys - but look best IMO on the Mk 2 Capri. Mk 3 they're ok, but look wrong on other cars. A great period design. (The 4-spoke RS really suited the Mk2 Escort)

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Spiderwebs look fantastic on the Mk1 Granada but awful on the Mk2. I think they'd suit a 70's Lambo or maserati as well as the handsome big ford.
Only other vehicle I've seen these on is a bay-window T2, and they looked absolutely shite on that. Again an opinion. One of my favourite wheel designs of the 70's. 
The 4-stud version of these don't look anywhere near as nice.

I've seen a Scimitar fitted with Minilites. No. Just no.

I always thought of those as Mk 2 Capri Ghia wheels , but as you say a lot of Mk2 and 3 S’s had them , including those driven by CI5’s finest as the Laser RS 4 spoke lookalikes didn’t get fitted to the S until after The Proffesionals.

They used to look great on Escort Ghias in the brochures, but I never remember seeing one on the road so fitted.

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1 hour ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I always thought of those as Mk 2 Capri Ghia wheels , but as you say a lot of Mk2 and 3 S’s had them , including those driven by CI5’s finest as the Laser RS 4 spoke lookalikes didn’t get fitted to the S until after The Proffesionals

They had them in the last season! VHK  11 & 12 W,

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1 hour ago, Bren said:

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Definitely, but only with the right nut, nut cover, centre cap, trim ring  combination. Presumably ( hopefully) that’s a post 75 2.0 GL.

Earlier 3.0 GT Consuls and optionally on other models , you would have got the same wheel with chrome wheel nuts and stainless centre caps, although never a trim ring.

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Mark 2s got a silver painted plastic centre cap that was shaped around the silver plastic covered nuts.

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My favourite was the special edition Consort that got colour coded versions

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Although not with that trim ring as standard.

A few people band them to make , what I think are the toughest looking Grannies

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Although after my massive Bodie and Doyle Laser wheels fail, my memory cannot be trusted.

 

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2 hours ago, 4wheeledstool said:

Total pain in the cock to clean though. :(

I still have nightmares about those bloody things (and similar) back when I worked at the garage...fiddly doesn't even come close.

I seem to recall 80s BMWs having a style which was similarly fiddly to clean as well.

There's something maddening on a deeply fundamental level about knowing that it's taken you 50% longer to do the exterior part of the valet because of the damned wheels...

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37 minutes ago, face said:

Probably said it before, but I love Metro Turbo alloys.

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Me too.  Although it always makes me think that they designed an alloy to look like a plastic wheel trim.

Wish I had my metro turdo now. Should not have sold it (in 1992) 

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