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" ?

[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"

[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...

[njsteve]

You might be right! I 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.