Morris Minor Owners Club

Good morning

Can anyone identify the wheels fitted to this pickup?

Regards

Dermot.

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... fast-road/

They look similar to those fitted to the Triumph Vitesse / GT6.
If the front hubs and rear axle are Marina then it is possible that the wheels are from the Triumph range.

I initially thought Triumph or similar, but the hole shape is different.

I'm now swaying towards VW G60 Wheels just because of the slot design:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vw+g60+ ... 36&bih=748

If they were VW wheels there is a good chance that the PCD is wrong for the Minor or Marina.
The PCD for a Minor is 4" or 101.6mm.
Most continental (and modern) wheels are 100mm PCD.
The 100mm wheels will fit over the Minor studs but when the wheel nuts are tightened the studs are put under additional strain.
It is a common mistake in thinking that the 100mm PCD wheels will be suitable for 101.6mm PCD but they are not and should not be used.
Looking at the photos of the wheels in the Minor pickup link the wheels have 14 holes, the VW wheels have less.
No doubt they will get identified in due course.

Unfortunately the issue of metric PCD being used on Minors appears to be becoming more frequent and in some cases totally incorrect wheels are being fitted.
Having seen truck wheels shear 3/4" studs I would rather have the correct wheels fitted.
I just thought the wheels fitted to the van looked quite good but as it appears to have been modified somewhat no doubt the hubs have changed.

Sorry but I don't know what the wheels are from but expanding the rear wheel picture it shows as a 175 - 13" and looking at the dish on it I would think possibly the rims been widened to suit, or had the rims reversed.

Regards stud patten, as we know Marina hubs came in 3 3/4" pcd and 4 1/2" pcd and can be redrilled to anything In between the two, so the stud pattern of those wheels could be almost any 4 stud pattern, and if those wheels didn't have the facility to wear minor hubcaps originally its not hard to pitch three holes in to the wheel centre to take machined buttons to hold a minor hubcap,

I recently reversed a set of Peugeot steel rims on their centres and added buttons to hold hold Volvo chrome hubcaps so a customer could fit them to his Volvo for a deep dish retro look,

Nearest thing I know of for a Minor would be these, 5 1/2" wide x 14" diameter, steels, they use original Minor centres with new rims to give the deep dish look, and have the same backspace as an LP917 (4 1/2" van rim)

Steve

Yes, I was thinking they may be Weller steelies, with holes drilled. They appear similar to these:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/wheel-rims-ty ... 1372888477

That would make sense as the 95.25mm PCD is the same as the Marina 3.75" PCD.

Here you go,

https://wellerwheels.com/products/austin-a40-a35

13" same as on the blue pickup with 14 holes in same as the blue pickup, and on a 4" stud pattern, it appears they have just had the 3 buttons added to each wheel for the hub caps.

Steve

Great stuff, thanks for that, I see Weller are sold out as well so they must be popular.

The down side is that they are sold out. Murry Minor just beat me to it.