Earlies with rims

[Luke Geis]

I am finally starting to build some steam in the restore department. I am looking for rims and tires to put on my 1961, 500. I am looking to put a rim that is 14-16 " and up to 7" wide. However after much research I still don't have a clear answer as to what rim configuration will work. I have found a konig set that looks very similar to the Yenko stinger rims. But I have no info on it's specs. From the research it seems a rim with 4" backspacing and 1" offset is about what I'm looking for. I have read that rims up to 15" will work on the earlies. I have a late model front end on my 61 with the early spindles if that makes a difference.

So what do I want. I am interested in seeing what others have installed on their earlies and what the rim specs are, so I can start doing some better deducing. i also figure this would be a good thread to start getting photo's collected of earlies with rims and specs for better research. Brian Blackwells site has great info, but still leaves me wondering what will actually work.

Thanks all.....

[Scott H]

There's some useful info here.
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=59

[cvair4life]

Rafee just put some rims on his EM. Check em out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7alYB1Jq0

and since you can't even see his car in that viddy...

viewtopic.php?f=80&p=8657#p8657