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Default Some of my old wheels

What can you tell me about these wheels? I haven't seen any like the aluminum slots. They are 15X8.5. Are the Cragars the good ones? They are 15X4. I guess the other one is a Chevelle or Camaro SS wheel, correct?
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Personally not a fan of those Cragar 15x4's ..... that fat outer lip...next to the rim...

The new 15x4.5's look better and are more accurate to the earlier 15x4's even though rim is 1/2 wider and spoke sot as curved.
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So this isn't the early design?
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Your 15x4's are the second design. The first-early design 15x4's are hard to come by. IMO yours are 10 times better than the present flat spoke things.
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Your 15x4's are the second design. The first-early design 15x4's are hard to come by. IMO yours are 10 times better than the present flat spoke things.
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Your 15x4's are the second design. The first-early design 15x4's are hard to come by. IMO yours are 10 times better than the present flat spoke things.

I have two sets of Cragar ss 15 X 4 direct bolt 5- 4 3/4
One set made in 1967 the other some time in the 80's they are exactly the same?
What do the original 15 x 4 wheels look like?
Mine have a wider lip than what is on the market today.
Do you have pictures off the different 15 X 4 wheels?
I used a dial caliper to check dimensions 1967 to 80's
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Anybody know anything about the aluminum slots? I can't find any information on Universal Wheel. These wheels have 6 slots instead of the normal 5.
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They look like copies of Dragmaster wheels.
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Can you pull the trim ring off your SS wheel and tell us/show us what the date and 2 letter code is around your air valve?
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