Cragar Super Sports

[GM-26]

Currently, you can purchase 15" x 4.5" Cragar "SS"'s brand new. That's the skinniest size available. My memory isn't the best. In the 60's and 70's, were they 15" x 4" or 15" x 4.5" ? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

[Steve_Hoog]

15x3?

[njsteve]

You mean like these? These were the skinnies on the front of my 70 Hemi Charger back in 70. They are date coded as Dec 1969 and are 15 x 4-1/2 with F-78x15 tires on them. Still hoilding air after all these years!

[GM-26]

Yes! So I guess they have always been 15" x 4.5" http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif

[whitetop]

Cragar only made the SS front runners in 15x4" wide up until a few years ago. They never made it in 3 or 3.5 or 4.5. You measure from the inside of the rim...bead to bead, not the outside of the rim. Todays Cragar is 4.5 wide and they did it because of safety issues. Too many guys were rolling the tires off the 4" rims on the street.

Steve; The 15x4.5 you noted on the rims means it for the 4.5 Chrysler/Ford bolt pattern

[GM-26]

That makes sense... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif

[njsteve]

You might be right! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gifI checked the back of the rims and it says "4-1/2" by one of the lug holes. I measured as best as I could with the rubber still on the wheels and it is less than 4-1/2 wide from the mounting bead on one side to the other. Here's a photo of my Charger from a few decades ago with the big-n-littles on it
-NJSteve

[ss427copo]

yes..........like these. 15x4's on L-78's with 1970 O2 still in them!

[ss427copo]

.........here's a better one

[427TJ]

Here's a nice shot of Bill Jenkins' '67 SS 396 Camaro drag car. From the cover of the 1/68 Super Stock and Drag Illustrated. Note the small (home made?) front spoiler. The car did not have a rear spoiler. Yet.

[427TJ]

Rear view. No spoiler.

[427TJ]

Too bad this shot was published across the center of the magazine. Note small hood tach.

[Motion Camaro]

<font color="blue">My '68 Camaro had Cragars on it when I got it.
15 x 4 frt / 15 x 8 rear &amp; were stamped 1964. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
I wish I still had them, they were in pretty good shape.

You can buy them again from Cragar. I called them 6 mths ago.
You can even get the 15 x 14's!!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif</font>

[Supercar_Kid]

Here's a color shot of Jenkins at Indy in '67. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif

[70-SS/RS-L78]

That is a Great Picture of Bill, Notice the smirk,But No Smile. Thats THE GRUMP that I know!!!
Mark

[Fhakya]

Maybe it's the tint of the old magazine but in that photo the car almost looks like it was Butternut Yellow.

[427TJ]

I was gonna' say Capri Cream. Bill Jenkins in a Capri Cream Camaro? NAAAH! Yeah, it must be the photo's age or evening twilight that makes the car look that way.

[Mr70]

As much as I love that period picture of the Car,Grumpy,and Indy..He still looks like he is posing for an Ad promoting Hemmaroid Removal.
No disrespect intended. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[bwag]

Grumpy was effective at eliminating HEMI-ROIDS,so that might be why you make the connection

[Motion Camaro]

<font color="blue">lol http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif lol </font>

[427TJ]

Found a neat '67 Camaro SS 396 drag racer in the 1/69 Rodder and Super/Stock. 15x4.5 Cragars up front, jacked-up stance, no spoilers. Note the Bowtie gas cap. Is that the optional locking cap? The car ran in SS/E Automatic (12.08/116) and started life as a 325-horse/Th-400 car. Owners were Billy and James Dennis. The engine was modified internally but ran the stock Q-jet on an Edelbrock C-3B intake. Paint was '68 Cadillac Firemist Green with the stock black vinyl top.

[Supercar_Kid]

Very cool looking drag car. Note the American Racing Dragmaster wheels on the rear. These are the same wheels that were on the '70 Phase III Baldwin-Motion Camaro that Shor had posted period slides of some time ago. Gotta love the stance. You can tell it was a "pretty" drag car, when was the last time you saw door edge protectors on a racecar? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

[bkhpah]

I think the gauge on the cowl panel is a fuel pressure gauge not a tach. That was the only place you could mount such a gauge since it was a mechanical unit...BKH http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

[Mr70]

Get a load of the Number 1 Team logo on the deck lid. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif