What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Barten

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Hello,
I'm looking at all the nice pictures of P6's and trying ta make up my mind what wheels looks the best on a P6. It depends of course of model, but for the Monza red 3500 s it is hard to beat the Rostyle wheels I think. I just wonder if it looks even better with the 15" rostyles from the P5. It would be interesting if someone had a photo of 2 cars together, one with the original 14" rostyles and the other with 15" rostyles.
What's your opinion?
regards, Barten
 
Hi Barten.

For me it has to be a nice set of original 14" rostyles!!!
I believe that when Erik The Viking eventually got round to rebuilding his car,, "inspired by mine at Crich :LOL: :LOL:" ,he fitted 15" rostyles,so we could probably do a side by side shot of 2 near identical cars with 14" and 15" wheels!!

Dave
 
harveyp6 said:
Minilites.


Yep. Here is my TC...

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Hi there

I have Magstars on my 3500S NADA and think they really suit the model, especially with the air scoops in the bonnet already trying to give it a muscle car look. Magstars were also used on Ford Mustangs.

However, James Taylor describes them in one of his books as "vulgar" so they're obviously not to everyone's taste...lol!!

I've always thought/believed that with ANY car, regardless of make, model, or year that what looks the best is the genuine parts that the manufacturer intended to put on the car when it was new and not a part made to fit any vehicle. Remember, the manufacturer spent time and effort in a design studio and with model mock ups looking at different types of wheels, lights, grills, bumpers etc. and then decided what most suited the car (even British Leyland).

I've seen quite a lot of P6's with period Cosmic alloys and I have to admit, they look brilliant as well. I think the standard 3500S wheel trims with the bolt through chrome nuts look very classy anyway.

As always, its down to personal taste and what works best for the owner's eyes...then again, I've seen too many blacked out windows, huge exhausts, 747-wing spoilers and the like (usually on a 1.0 litre Nova painted purple or urine yellow!)

Best regards

Stephen
 
In my view the P5B Rostyles don't look nearly as good as the P6 ones, which have a deeper-dish look to them and work with S1 and S2 cars of most any colour combination. Trim rings and/or white-wall tyres make the wheel diameter look bigger. Minilites (preferably 15") work well visually, as do SD1 Vitesse although with a more generic-alloy look. My personal favourite to date were a set of 15j7 Minilites, fitted to a Norwegian Cameron green V8 reportedly with no fitting mods, but they might have been specially ordered from the factory after careful measurements... The wheels filled out the arches *just* right and took, I believe, 215/50s or 225/45s. Subtle, beefy...
 

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Tor

I think those Minilites look absolutely fabulous! Both the tyre sizes you quote are substantially under diameter to standard and this may be why the car can stand such wide treads. Using an under diameter tyre helps to keep the tyre away from the D post pinch point. Might be worth going that route provided you also used a gearbox with overdrive top such as the LT77/R380 or ZF HP22/24 to restore peace and tranquility at cruise!

I agree with you on the Rostyles as well.

Chris
 
Tor said:
My personal favourite to date were a set of 15j7 Minilites, fitted to a Norwegian Cameron green V8 reportedly with no fitting mods, but they might have been specially ordered from the factory after careful measurements...

HMMM - Minilte siad they couldn't do me a set of 15x6 of any reasonable width due the offset needed to fit the P6 - there must have been something else going on as well as the new rims
 
Mad-Dan,

It would appear that not all Minilites are the same. My P6 has 14" Minilites on and they've been on there since the '70's according to the previous owners but I asked Minilite if I could buy some centre caps for them last year and they said that they'd never made any wheels with a centre hole as big as these and some other company must have made them.

Presumably there must have been different companies making them all under the same name?

Anyway, I think they're cool and they were the deal clincher when I bought the car. 15" look even better and have a better selection of tyres available.
 
Be careful chaps, there are a lot of wheels out there that look like like Minilites but aren't. The real thing will have the name fairly prominently cast into them somewhere. There is at least one manufactureer of Minilite look-alikes that has given people on here considerable grief on quality.

Chris
 
chrisyork said:
The real thing will have the name fairly prominently cast into them somewhere.


Mine do have the logo cast in to them but they still won't accept that they made them.

Anyway, I've since found out that P5 Rostyle centre caps fit perfectly.
 
testrider said:
chrisyork said:
The real thing will have the name fairly prominently cast into them somewhere.


Mine do have the logo cast in to them but they still won't accept that they made them.

Anyway, I've since found out that P5 Rostyle centre caps fit perfectly.

IIRC I used Ford Rostyle centre caps on mine.
 
I talked to the guy selling at the time and he did claim no mods had been made. I did raise an eyebrow, since fitting virtually any other rim mentioned on this forum means machining something off somewhere.

By the way guys, does anyone know whether Rostyle centre caps a universal size? I'm considering MG ones for mine, failing all else, and it would be nice if they fit.
 
I think the caps are different sizes for different cars depending on the diameter of the hub bearing nuts. P6 rostyle ones are too small so you'll have to try the MG to see if they work.
 
Paprika said:
I went through the P5B Rostyle 15", SD1 14" alloy, and ended up with SD1 Vitesse

I rather like them (got a set in my shed) - are they the 15" and what size tyres are you running?

I am looking at sometime fitting mine with 205/65 15"
 
quattro said:
Paprika said:
I went through the P5B Rostyle 15", SD1 14" alloy, and ended up with SD1 Vitesse

I rather like them (got a set in my shed) - are they the 15" and what size tyres are you running?

I am looking at sometime fitting mine with 205/65 15"

The SD1 Vitesse booklet says 205/60 15's are the standard size. I've never put the 15" alloys on a P6, but do have my 67 2000SC running SD1 14" alloys and it looks great!
 
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