Wheel meet again!!

[Paul-R]

Appearing also on a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus here
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle ... beam-lotus

Them's the ones!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Four leaf clovers.

1980's XR3 Cloverleafs

2024 Cloverleafs

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Cloverleafs in technicolour

Neil

[CitroJim]

Very pretty Neil!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks Jim.

The pepperpot and the cloverleaf go hand in hand with a very nice dressing-up job done by Ford on the XR2 and XR3 of the 80's. So here's the XR2 pepperpot's moment in technicolour too...

Cloverleafs and Pepperpots

So the XR3 had the cloverleafs and the XR2 the pepperpots but can you find examples of the cloverleaf and pepperpots on other cars and post them up. You will, perhaps surprisingly, be able to find an Aston Martin Lagonda with pepperpots.


1982 Ford Escort XR3 (14456378680)
Kieran White from Manchester, England, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

1989 Ford Fiesta XR2 1.6 Front
Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[CitroJim]

I like pepperpots... My first MK1 MG Metro had rather attractive pepperpots and my 1.6 205 GTi had what some described as pepperpots although I felt that was stretching things a bit...

[NewcastleFalcon]

This if translated from the original German, is a thread about the wheel designs of the Citroen CX, and the Citroen XM. It includes a montage put together by the Original Poster on the thread

Wheel designs for citroen models.

https://www.andre-citroen-club.de/forum ... n-modelle/

Click to view larger image
Citroen CX models Wheels

Citroen XM models Wheels

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The same person who put together the CX wheels montage and the XM wheels montage also has done one on the BX.

I'll keep that one for a rainy day.

Meanwhile todays tale of 2 MG's

MGTF

MGBGT

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

When was the last time you saw one of these
It's from one of these
Yes an Alfa Romeo Alfasud

Neil

[MattBLancs]

You've reminded me that I did see an Alfasud on the road a week or two ago. No picture as was driving. A red one and less posh than your example (with twin headlights and alloys, guess that's the sporty one: Sprint?) the red one I saw is likely the first time I've ever seen one on the move.

Came here to post these wheels:

I think these are known as "Ronal multispokes"

Popped up on my Facebook marketplace feed. They are of particular interest to me as they are (not this specific set) the first set of alloy wheels I ever owned! I had a VW Golf as my first car and bought a set of these.

The Facebook ones were only £100 but as I already have a garage full of tat (and no mark 2 Golf to fit them to!) I didn't invest.

Similar to the UR Quattro turbo wheels (but those are 5 stud and possibly 15" rather than these at 14") wonder if they are off a lower spec Coupe GT which had 4 stud.
Advert said off a VW Caddy and they definitely wouldn't have been original fitment for that!

[NewcastleFalcon]

You've reminded me that I did see an Alfasud on the road a week or two ago. No picture as was driving. A red one and less posh than your example (with twin headlights and alloys, guess that's the sporty one: Sprint?) the red one I saw is likely the first time I've ever seen one on the move.

Yes Matt second thoughts I may have just lazily decribed it as an Alfasud, but that particular monniker got ditched in February 1983. The car in my photos is from June 1983 and in that period they were known only as plain Alfa Romeo Sprint, and I do think now particularly with the green badging that the version is very probably an Alfa Romeo Sprint 1.5 Cloverleaf or as the Italians would put it Alfa Romeo Sprint 1.5 Quadrifoglio Verde.

On third thoughts it does have the badge with Alfasud on it! Alfasud Ti (Cloverleaf logo) as in the pic so maybe some overlap in branding in 1983

In 1983 an attempt to keep pace with the hot hatchback market, the final version of the Alfasud Ti received a tuned 1490 cc engine developing 105 PS (77 kW). Named Quadrifoglio Verde (Green Cloverleaf), the model was also fitted with Michelin low-profile TRX tyres on metric rims (tyre size 190/55 VR 340 TRX) as well as an enhanced level of equipment.

To conlude its an Alfasud 1.5 Ti green cloverleaf (Quadrifoglio Verde if you prefer it!)

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Debut for a bike wheel but after all it is a...

Brough Superior

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

In Pictures...every factory output wheel variation on the Citroen CX, and the Citroen XM models has been deposited previously on this thread here viewtopic.php?p=798498#p798498

Now the Citroen BX has it's turn

click to enlarge

Neil