[DeTomaso] mustang wheels

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Curt, David and Mike,

IIRC when I did this experiment about six years ago.....the deal was for Mustang wheels from AFS (or ASF). Jim Duncan had these wheels on his stock fendered Pantera and they worked fine. I needed some seventeen inch wheels for my Pantera and we proceeded to test fit his wheels to my car. IIRC the fronts were the 17x8 BS 5.24 and they fit fine.

The rears were 17x9 or 10. They fit Jim's car and they did not fit mine due to interference with the lower part of the upright. It looked like a 1/4" or 3/8" spacer would have fixed the problem. Jim recalled that his car has aftermarket brakes front and rear. My brakes were stock. It appears that the aftermarket hat and rotor moved the wheel out about 3/8" and permitted Jim to use the bargain AFS Mustang wheels without problem. I didn't want to use a spacer and ended up with different seventeen inch wheels.

That is my story and I am sticking to it.

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles



---- Curt Hall <cuvee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "I'm sure it depends on which Mustang Wheels your talking about? What year and what type of Mustang wheel as to the back spacing, seems there are many! The ones I found and figured would fit and look good (at least in my eyes) are Mustang R Wheels from ASF Wheels. The sizes Fronts 17x8 BS 5.24---Backs 17x10.5 BS 6.63 the back may need a small spacer maybe not? Like Mike said, the 17x9" wheels up front may be to wide? But there again I'm sure there are many Panteras out there running a 17x9" on the front?  
>
> --- On Tue, 5/17/11, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] mustang wheels
> To: adin at frontier.net, detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 8:30 PM
>
>
>
> In a message dated 5/17/11 20 26 53, adin at frontier.net writes:
>
>
> > Someone once told me Mustang wheels wouldn't work on the rear of a
> > Pantera.
> >
> > They seem to be fine on my car - can someone educate me?
> >
>
> Which Mustang wheels are you referring to?
>
> Hall used to sell 17x9 Mustang Cobra wheels for the Pantera.   The fronts
> were too wide, and the rears were too narrow to fit properly without spacers.
>   That is, the rear wheels looked much like the stock 15x8 Campagnolo
> wheels, which is to say, too narrow to fill the fenders properly.   In front, the
> 17x9 wheels stick out a fair bit and the tires would beat the hell out of
> the stock fender lips.
>
> Having said that, they would look great on the front of a car with GTS
> flares, and matching wheels can be had in 17x10 or 17x11 with custom offset to
> fit the rear fenders too.
>
> Mike
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