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Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine
My '68 C/10 Stepside was originally optioned with 5.25x17.5 -- 6 lug 5.5 bolt circle rims and 7.00x17.5 bias tires. Mid '70s 7.00 tires were hard to get, so I went to 8.00. In the '80s, Radials were new, and I went with 8R-17.5LTs. Turn of the Last Century, they told me my 17.5 rims were shot. I could not find replacements.
Tire shop talked me into 6 x 16 rims and 235/85/R16 tires. I liked them OK.
Last April, I got clipped square on the right rear. I looked for 6x16 white spoke rims. Nada.
I paid a ''wheelwright'' $80 to true my 6x16 rim. [Tire was fine.] When the tire was off the rim, I saw I had been running on Trailer Rims for over 100,000 miles and 20+ years. Well for a half-ton that runs mostly unloaded, they work OK. So I hunted down a new trailer 6x16 rim, and found one for $68.
While I like the idea of getting my OEM 17.5 rims ''re-hooped'' I'm not sure I can still get 8R-17.5 tires.
After I lost one OEM hubcap, I pulled the rest. Now I only have one. But I was never keen on hubcaps anyway.
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Wow, I would have figured you'd be able to find them in the Southwest. I always see pictures of junkyards there that have all kinds of old stuff. You just don't see junkyards like those in the Northeast.