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Alloy road & race wheels made in Australia

Started by kaydee , Jan 19 2013 03:01

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#101 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 10 November 2014 - 10:16

Also to with Aussie wheels Performance Industries will be gone in about 3 weeks. In recent times they have made the staple of wheels on GpN , Muscle car masters, GpS wheels and lots of period classics with the Superlite and Challenger range. As well as a LOT of caravan, trailer and industrial wheels

If anyone wants some contact me ASAP before they are no longer. I do have about 20 sets in stock. Mostly Ford, Holden, Cortina and 4 x114.3 bolt patterns.

Quite a few sizes have already run out and they will not be casting any more. These are machined from blanks so most stud patterns can be done.

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#102 275 GTB-4

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Posted 10 November 2014 - 10:25

Also to with Aussie wheels Performance Industries will be gone in about 3 weeks. In recent times they have made the staple of wheels on GpN , Muscle car masters, GpS wheels and lots of period classics with the Superlite and Challenger range. As well as a LOT of caravan, trailer and industrial wheels
If anyone wants some contact me ASAP before they are no longer. I do have about 20 sets in stock. Mostly Ford, Holden, Cortina and 4 x114.3 bolt patterns.
Quite a few sizes have already run out and they will not be casting any more. These are machined from blanks so most stud patterns can be done.

Lee are you saying Performance Industries has gone guts up? Very sad if true :well:

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#103 Ray Bell

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Posted 10 November 2014 - 11:09

Hang about...

Apart from the others mentioned, there were also Wear and Dale wheels using Hopwood rims. The steel rims were good, I'm inclined to agree that the alloy ones were a bit dodgy.

There would be many thousands of Hopwood rims out there on those various centres. As for ASP, did they have the wellbase style rims?

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#104 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 10 November 2014 - 11:26

Lee are you saying Performance Industries has gone guts up? Very sad if true

The owner has sold the premises. The manufacturing had someone interested but it seems to have fallen over. An indictment of the manufacturing industry in this country.

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#105 Ray Bell

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Posted 09 September 2015 - 00:40

An ad from RCN in 1966...

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#106 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 02:56

Also to with Aussie wheels Performance Industries will be gone in about 3 weeks. In recent times they have made the staple of wheels on GpN , Muscle car masters, GpS wheels and lots of period classics with the Superlite and Challenger range. As well as a LOT of caravan, trailer and industrial wheels

If anyone wants some contact me ASAP before they are no longer. I do have about 20 sets in stock. Mostly Ford, Holden, Cortina and 4 x114.3 bolt patterns.

Quite a few sizes have already run out and they will not be casting any more. These are machined from blanks so most stud patterns can be done.

There is a new supplier of the Performance range now. They are coming through in most of the sizes from before. Plus hotwire style and 5 spoke 'Hustler' style too.

Contact me for more.

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#107 Piquet959

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Posted 10 September 2015 - 11:39

Lee, can you advise if the Hustler style will be available in 7x13 in Torana bolt pattern?

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#108 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 11 September 2015 - 01:03

An ad from RCN in 1966...

This is intriguing. Their wheels can take it but these two are tied in knots! What were they thinking? Though in reality it is better the rims fold up than taking the suspension out with super strong rims.

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#109 275 GTB-4

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Posted 11 September 2015 - 11:49

There is a new supplier of the Performance range now. They are coming through in most of the sizes from before. Plus hotwire style and 5 spoke 'Hustler' style too.
Contact me for more.

WheelBoyz???

http://performancewh...ages/contact-us

Edit: acquired by the Tonkin family of Allied Wheels & Wheelboyz fame...where are they located in QLD?

Edited by 275 GTB-4, 14 September 2015 - 22:45.

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#110 Ray Bell

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Posted 14 September 2015 - 11:13

Maybe I was wrong about the Costa wheels having to be split to mount and demount tyres?

This wheel is on a Cheetah Clubman, I'm pretty sure it's a Costa wheel.

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#111 275 GTB-4

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Posted 14 September 2015 - 22:48

WheelBoyz???

http://performancewh...ages/contact-us

Edit: acquired by the Tonkin family of Allied Wheels & Wheelboyz fame...where are they located in QLD?

Allied Wheels Pty Ltd (and Wheelboyz)
Wholesale Wheels & Tyres
(07) 3293 4500
5-9 Business Drv
Deception Bay QLD 4508

Edited by 275 GTB-4, 14 September 2015 - 22:48.

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#112 GMACKIE

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Posted 15 September 2015 - 07:33

An ad from RCN in 1966...

Managed to have a nice catch-up chat with David and Lynne Holyoake at the Cootamundra Sprints. David was proprietor of C.C. Tyre Service.

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#113 275 GTB-4

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Posted 15 September 2015 - 11:14

Is a relative still running CC Greg?

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#114 seldo

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Posted 15 September 2015 - 12:44

CC was an early sponsor of mine and supplied me with a bunch of very good sort-of Minilite-look alloys. Apart from some scary x-rays the castings were good, and I never had an issue of any sort. Thank you!

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#115 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 16 September 2015 - 09:45

CC was an early sponsor of mine and supplied me with a bunch of very good sort-of Minilite-look alloys. Apart from some scary x-rays the castings were good, and I never had an issue of any sort. Thank you!

Did you make any look like those pics?

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#116 Dale Harvey

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Posted 16 September 2015 - 11:28

Maybe I was wrong about the Costa wheels having to be split to mount and demount tyres?

This wheel is on a Cheetah Clubman, I'm pretty sure it's a Costa wheel.

Looks like a Cheetah wheel to me. Of course they may have been manufactured by someone other than Brian Shead but I am not sure, but the same type of wheel is fitted to most Cheetahs that I have seen.

Dale.

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#117 seldo

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Posted 16 September 2015 - 11:58

Did you make any look like those pics?

Lol. Well, no , I didn't, but Digby Cooke smashed my car to pieces at Surfers when a tyre blew when we were creaming the class in the 6 hr in about....'69?

Edited by seldo, 16 September 2015 - 11:58.

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#118 Derrwint

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Posted 23 September 2017 - 00:52

does anybody know what these wheels are, they look similar to the early Simmons except for the webbing between the spokes?

Early_Simmons_maybe_webbing_between_spok

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#119 seldo

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Posted 23 September 2017 - 03:29

They look like Col Wear's wheels, although there is no W..E..A..R letters cast into the web between the spokes, unless it has been ground off.

Edited by seldo, 23 September 2017 - 03:29.

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#120 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 September 2017 - 10:49

Yes... someone got or made patterns to this style...

Trouble is, I don't know who. But they're not Wear wheels with the letters ground off.

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#121 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 September 2017 - 11:26

Contacting Tony Simmons would probably get an answer on this...

Or possibly Rod Dale or Ray Eldershaw. Even Dave Mawer.

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#122 2Bob

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Posted 23 September 2017 - 21:05

Looks like an ASP wheel to me. Made for quite a while by Brian Randle with 'Randy' cast into centre. Formers etc now owned by Dave Myers and his mate at Caloote. Rims will be spun in Melbourne I understand.

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#123 Lee Nicolle

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Posted 24 September 2017 - 07:20

Looks like an ASP wheel to me. Made for quite a while by Brian Randle with 'Randy' cast into centre. Formers etc now owned by Dave Myers and his mate at Caloote. Rims will be spun in Melbourne I understand.

Last time I talked to Brian about this he was not able to get any metal spinning done here in SA. Metal Spinners the company had closed and the only person doing it here in SA was unreliable. And sending dies to Sydney was unprofitable.

Just another SA succes story, there used to be a few metal spinners in Adelaide able to do that work and now there is none.

In fact within the next week or two no wheels will be made in SA as the only ones being made are by ROH for Toyota. all the steel wheels are being made in the Philipines and I am about to find out how good or bad they are in comparison to the SA made ones as I have some on backorder.

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#124 Ray Bell

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Posted 24 September 2017 - 11:22

These are not ASP wheels...

They are a take-off from Simmons centres of the original design, as David mentioned being made at one stage by Col Wear (Welsor).

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#125 Ray Bell

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Posted 29 September 2017 - 21:03

Okay, I have a story to tell about the WEAR wheels pattern...

Ray Eldershaw, who was the proprietor of Circle Track Wheels at the time, was approached by someone who wanted some WEAR centres. They had a set, maybe they broke one or just wanted more, something like twenty or twenty-five years ago.

Ray phoned around the foundries he suspected may have done those castings as he expected that Col Wear may well have left the patterns at the foundry before he died.

Very few phone calls later he was speaking to Turville Foundry in Blakehurst, where the owner was sure he had the pattern somewhere in his dusty 'storage area'. A few days later it was located and new centres cast.

That business changed hands and today is Turville Precision Castings. Whether or not they still have the patterns Ray doesn't know, but it's a good place to start looking!

Let us know how you get on, Derrwint...

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#126 Derrwint

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Posted 30 September 2017 - 01:06

that is great information Ray, thanks very much.

Cheers

Darren

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#127 Ray Bell

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Posted 30 September 2017 - 11:35

Originally posted by Dale Harvey
Looks like a Cheetah wheel to me. Of course they may have been manufactured by someone other than Brian Shead but I am not sure, but the same type of wheel is fitted to most Cheetahs that I have seen.
Dale.

Sorry, Dale...

Yes, fitted to almost all (if not all) Cheetahs, but not made by Brian Shead. Mario Costa made them.