Can you ID these steelies by the stamping

[thegreatjustino]

I picked up a couple of pretty wide steelie rims a while back. One rim has the dimension stamping in the first photo and the other has the logo in the second photo. Can any of you rim experts tell me anything based on these stamps?

 

[serial car restorer]

A 15x5½ is not a wide wheel. If that dimension is stamped on the center, and the wheel is wider than 5½", then they are probably stock wheel centers that have been re-hooped, or maybe cut and widened. I'm not familiar with the round logo.

 

[thegreatjustino]

These stamping are on what I would call the face of the rim. Inside the tire area when mounted.

 

[serial car restorer]

Then they have been widened in one way or another. More pictures would help figure it out. Both front and back sides, and maybe one of the rim, if there are no tires mounted now.

 

[bronco italiano]

Being in Stockton, they could have been widened by Stockton Wheel back in the day

 

[thegreatjustino]

Then they have been widened in one way or another. More pictures would help figure it out. Both front and back sides, and maybe one of the rim, if there are no tires mounted now.

15" vintage steelie rims
8" wide
5x5.5 bolt pattern
3.75" back spacing

 

[Yeller]

Used to be several companies and many talented individuals that built wheels like that. I used to buy split shells and wheel centers and build my own, now it is almost impossible to just buy the parts.

 

[serial car restorer]

Yup. Factory Ford 15x5½ centers hand welded into a pair of 4" shell halves. You can see where they drilled out the original rivets holding the center to the narrow rims. No way to determine who did the widening.

 

[thegreatjustino]

Yup. Factory Ford 15x5½ centers hand welded into a pair of 4" shell halves. You can see where they drilled out the original rivets holding the center to the narrow rims. No was to determine who did the widening.

Any idea what a set of two would be worth?

 

[serial car restorer]

Probably not much, these days. Four might have some value, but finding another pair that matches would be really tough.