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Can anyone identify the wheels on this 240?Views : 654 Replies : 8Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Mar 16th, 2019, 08:18 | #1 |
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Can anyone identify the wheels on this 240?
I hope to find some! |
Mar 16th, 2019, 09:05 | #2 |
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They look like stock 240 14" steel wheels that have been repainted off-white and fitted with chrome/stainless steel rim embellishers to me.
No doubt someone will advise that they are actually some very expensive aftermarket alloy ones!
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Mar 16th, 2019, 09:31 | #3 |
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The wheels look like the stock 14" wheels on my long-gone '78 264, but I don't know about those embellishers - not seen any like that before.
I have identical wheels on my '76 244. P |
Mar 16th, 2019, 09:48 | #4 |
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I hope you're right because that's exactly what i've got on mine (attached), but they look much bigger on the blue car - i'd have said 16".
I know i've yet to lower my car and the other has low-profile tyres, that all help make the wheels look bigger, but still can't imagine tham looking as good as on the blue motor - fingers crossed though. N |
Mar 16th, 2019, 09:49 | #5 |
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Perhaps it's the white wall that has the visual effect of increasing their dia
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Mar 16th, 2019, 11:55 | #6 |
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the stainless embellishers were fitted to the first GLE Models
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Mar 17th, 2019, 07:29 | #7 |
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It's hard to see in the photo with the sun glinting on the rims, but they look like standard "rimbellishers" that were available for lots of cars post-war.
I had a set on my Triumph Roadster of 1948, and on a 1981 DL 240. They look good with the flat plate kind of chrome hubcap. |
Mar 17th, 2019, 09:15 | #8 |
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I think these are the standard rims but have been handed to make them wider?
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Mar 17th, 2019, 23:47 | #9 |
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Those wheels are standard 14” wheels, but they slightly changed shape from you76/77 model, they changed in 80 when the center cap started fitting to the hub rather than clips on the wheel rim. A flat venter cap at first about the size of a side plate, with a black v in the middle that covered all the nuts, followed by same rim with silver dome just over hub with chrome nuts on display, and later in about 87 painted black and covered with plastic wheel trims.
You will notice the holes cut out of the rim are bigger and more defined with a solid ring around and no dimpled impression in between each one. Then of course as said about it has had an embelisher fitted to them. And lowered car of course so arches more filled. |
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