So sooner or later I’ll ad the story of the Galaxie…  I named Darling Nikki.  This car has been a total LOVE/HATE story from the start.

I just wanted to post on some wheels…  The wheels I have on the car are NOS chrome reverse from the sixties with wide whites…   The only thing that bugs me is that the wide whites are’nt so traditional…  It needs a nice pair of skinny white wall bias-  But I really dig the chrome wheels on a black car.

What I came across is a full set of 1965 FENTON’s.

Fenton made some cool looking wheels, aluminum centers and chrome outers, a lot like Rader’s that were sold at the same time.  These are 15×5.5 which is a pretty hard size to find in nice shape in any sixties wheel.  14′s were really popular during this era-

SO…  I need to get these Fenton’s cleaned up, buffed out, centers repainted and mounted up with some nice skinny white wall bias- and we’ll see how they look on the galaxie.

Here they are:

 

-a little before’n after…

In my opinion, nothing looks more sixties than SP tops…

-nothing looks cooler than six of them on a HEMI…

Obviously others share that opinion.  SP tops are around… but kinda rare, especially since people started snapping up the sixties parts like crazy.  One SP top came up for sale on ebay recently and look what it went for??? IS THIS CRAZY??

I think the price of cool sixties parts is getting way out of hand. 

Thanks to Mark Moriarity for hooking me up with this set of SIX…   They were really the last hard-to-find parts I needed.

First off I located a pretty rough impala wheel… but its the right wheel- and It’s something I can restore.  Prices for these have always been High but damn it I got one.