C-1 Wheel Question

[Anthony F.]

[Chris H.]

Re: C-1 Wheel Question

note on drawing 3723561 says
"valve hole must be within spoke area. Relation to bolt hole unimportant"

Thi note was on the drawing before 4/12/62 (drawiing redrawn) but may have been added/revised sometime after 12/27/54 when the drawing was first released.

Could you tell me the dates on all your wheels and whether they have rivets/welds/dogbones/double hump(extra hump around the center raised reinforcing hump). I want to see if my chart agrees.

Thanks, chris

[Anthony F.]

Re: C-1 Wheel Question

Chris,

Thanks my friend but I do not have the dates recorded and all wheels have tires mounted on them.

I believe that I have some extra riveted wheels in the shed. I will check to see if I can locate those dates for you.

[Anthony F.]

[Chris H.]

Re: C-1 Wheel Question

The chart I made up only covers 5" corvette wheels.

The dates on my wheels were very hard to see until I had them stripped.

Does anyone know if the wheel seals were used in non vette applications? Vettes used them from mid 55 to '58 and possibly some '59.

From what I can find in books, vettes used riveted wheels from '53-early '56, (generally welded statement in the 56/57 JGM's).
Colvin also states that passenger car shared wheels with vette from '53-'57.

My chart needs to be confirmed with actual wheel inspections before I am comfortable with it. The biggest issue is when riveted vs. spot welded wheels were used. I believe that in normal production rivets were used from '53-'early '56 and then a change to welded was made.

From your description your wheels may be correct for '55-early '56. Seals were used for both those years on vettes. I have 3 of the same wheels that were on my 62 and they were shared with passenger so they are probably very common.