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Originally Posted by Liteweight
I always wondered why the rear rims were installed backwards on this car. Offset with existing rims rather than buying new?
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Not only on this car. "Back in the day", custom wheels with offsets to the inside were not common (Cragar Super Tricks were the main ones, and expensive for grassroots racers.). With the Super Stock cars of the late '60s came the use of wide tires which meant wide wheels. Most of the wide wheels were aluminum cast with about a 4" inset for suspension and body clearance on stock suspensions. You could turn a 10" aluminum slot wheel around, machine a flat surface to mount against a brake drum and have a 5"-5 1/2" back spacing. We did that on an SS Chevelle in 1972.