Tires and wheel question.
I went out to my "barn" today & took a few pics I thought might be helpful to anybody thinking about Cragar SS wheels on an early A Body. The wheel & tire in the pics is what I described in the post above. A Rocket 14" x 7" Standard offset (which looks to be identical to a Cragar SS of the same size as far as backspacing) with an F60 14 tire with a tread width of 8 5/8", a section width of 9 7/16", & a diameter of 24 3/4". The pics are of it mounted on my '64 Barracuda with a '71 Demon 8 3/4" rear with 10" x 1 3/4" brakes. The car also has heavy duty leaf springs from a '65 Barracuda, as well as air shocks, but I let all of the air out of the shocks before I took the pics. I don't think you could run anything wider on this car, but you might get away with something a bit larger in diameter. Most of the pictures speak for themselves. There is one that is a bit hard to figure out at first glance. It was taken with the camera against the outside of the wheel looking straight up into the fenderwell. It looks like there's a lot of outside clearance, but that's just the wheelwell flare. The inner fenderwell curves in fairly quickly. That's the first pic.
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I went out to my "barn" today & took a few pics I thought might be helpful to anybody thinking about Cragar SS wheels on an early A Body. The wheel & tire in the pics is what I described in the post above. A Rocket 14" x 7" Standard offset (which looks to be identical to a Cragar SS of the same size as far as backspacing) with an F60 14 tire with a tread width of 8 5/8", a section width of 9 7/16", & a diameter of 24 3/4". The pics are of it mounted on my '64 Barracuda with a '71 Demon 8 3/4" rear with 10" x 1 3/4" brakes. The car also has heavy duty leaf springs from a '65 Barracuda, as well as air shocks, but I let all of the air out of the shocks before I took the pics. I don't think you could run anything wider on this car, but you might get away with something a bit larger in diameter. Most of the pictures speak for themselves. There is one that is a bit hard to figure out at first glance. It was taken with the camera against the outside of the wheel looking straight up into the fenderwell. It looks like there's a lot of outside clearance, but that's just the wheelwell flare. The inner fenderwell curves in fairly quickly. That's the first pic.
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