Well, perhaps it was another case of 'mis-interpretation of own memories' by the person who told me that. It happens a lot. One time a gas station attendant who was pretty old kept telling me that VW aircooled engines needed lead in their gas, and that he even remembers VW sending him a memo about it in like 1972 or something.
...The same VW that never made a aircooled engine (or as far as I know, ANY engine) which needs lead. EVER. Even in WWII.
It happens. People make mistakes, especially when it comes to remembering stuff that happened like 20 yrs ago.
I think I am going to try to find another pair of those wheels that are like my rear wheels, they look cool. Iv been meaning to do something cool with the wheels anyways.
I found some absolutely dope looking vintage appliances for it, but unfortunately they are designed for 1970s fords, and therefore they have a flat cross section and don't clear the front calipers. The only way to clear the calipers is to space the front wheels out like 20mm, and that would push the scrub radius way out and basically I think would seriously mess up front wheel geometry and kill the ball joints and bushes and bearings. I dunno, I know some people run massive spacers, but those same people do really stupid stuff to cars, and my car is a daily driver, I think 20mm is a little excessive. Spacers should never be needed anyways, keeping the stock scrub radius is important, something the usual slightly stupid tuning people don't seem to realize. Spacers are only good if the wheels you want have different offset, so the spacer actually returns things to normal, but unfortunately its not the case with these
Most cool vintage wheels in that PCD are for Fords, and therefore have the correct offset but no bulge for the caliper, so same problem. I hate modern wheels, especially alloys, stuff like appliances or rostyles look cool on old cars.
So what I am thinking is, get a whole set of those wheels like the rear wheels on my car has, acid dip them and give them a nice white and black paint job (rear centers, white outside), that would look pretty cool.
Just need to find some now. Iv been looking in photos and junkyards and called everyone I know thats into old cars and nobody knows what they are from.
