Ever since I bought our 55 I've felt that the stock steel wheels look nice but are a bit too thin. I wanted to keep the look, but have them wider and I didn't feel like cutting the ones I had.
I read a tip from "thehazmatguy" here at Trifive about Caprice wheels from the 80's looked almost the same and could be found in 7x15 dimension. So I started looking around for a set and it sure took a while to find a set here in Sweden - almost every set I found had the larger bolt circle or the rims were only 6 inches wide... Well, last week I finally found a set and today I had a shop move my 225x75x15 tires onto the new rims.
And here's the result! I'm super pleased with them - looks almost exactly the way it did before, just with a little deeper look. Just what I wanted!
I read a tip from "thehazmatguy" here at Trifive about Caprice wheels from the 80's looked almost the same and could be found in 7x15 dimension. So I started looking around for a set and it sure took a while to find a set here in Sweden - almost every set I found had the larger bolt circle or the rims were only 6 inches wide... Well, last week I finally found a set and today I had a shop move my 225x75x15 tires onto the new rims.
And here's the result! I'm super pleased with them - looks almost exactly the way it did before, just with a little deeper look. Just what I wanted!