The beauty of traditional hot rods is that they dont date like some modern stuff can. That is why with a traditional hot rod you can have a number of wheel and tyre combinations for a car. Jim Jacobs did this with his famous yellow Pete & Jakes coupe. The car had red Kelsey Hayes on narrow dirt trackers, black steelies on wide whites and Halibrands/ET's on dirt trackers. The car could be a forties, fifties or a sixties car in minutes.
Another car like this is the famous Dennis & Debbie Kyle '32 Roadster originally started by the late Tom Senter. This car is one of the 75 Deuces chosen for the 75th Deuce Anniversary in 2007. It has run steelies, Moon discs, Americans, Halibrands/ET's to portray the car differently.
In New Zealand, Bert Van Wijk has run Halibrands and radials on his '34 five window until recently switching to red steelies and wide whites.
With all that in mind I had always wanted to build up a collection of wheels to swap out on to what ever car I have at the time. These photos show the switch to the black steelies. These photos were taken on the way home from Kumeu one year. I still have the red wires and also a set of wide five '36-'39 rims, a set of 18 inch Deuce rims and also a set of 15" magnesium Americans. With the right tyres, any of these wheels can work to give a totally new appearance.
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