Looking for a wheel that looks like ....

[Twentyover]

Have a 76 Capri, shown in Avatar. The wheel is a Riken STX, 15 x 7, 4 x 107.9 (4 x 4.25). i like the look of the wheel, but am changing to a 5 x 4 1/2 bolt circle. anyone know of a similar looking wheel, 15 x 7 w/ that bolt circle?



Thanks for any feedback

Detail @ this VW forum thread

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthre...els-with-tires

[dontlifttoshift]

Looks similar enough to a Mustang pony wheel......but I don't think you will find those in 15s.

[Twentyover]

Hmm- Pony Rims- in 2009 I took a set of 16" Pony's off the Exploder I was driving and parked them in an unused corner of the barn. Live on a dirt road and felt a 15" hoop would give a little better sidewall and at that point there was better 10.5 x 21 tires for 15" hoops. Haven't thought of them since. Think I'll take a tape down to the barn tonight and take a measure.

My big concern is that @ 15" I'm already +2 from a 13" OEM rim. I'm already at about 3 1/2" sidewaii, now I'm looking out dropping another half inch down from that. You know, dirt road and all.

[79T/Aman]

If I recall the Capri was built on the Mustang II platform

[Twentyover]

You may be thinking of the Bobcat, Pinto's homely stepsister

Negative on Mustang II platform- The Capri was built on a Cortina derived platform in in Ford plants in Hailwood England, Genk Belgium, and Cologne, Germany. Used a Mac Strut front, and leaf rear, totally different unibodies than a Pinto or MII. Production continued from initial launch of the MK I in 1969 through the MkIII in 1986. They sopped importing into the US in 1978 when the Deutschmark/dollar exchange rate tanked. They shared engines only with the Pinto/Bobcat/M II (2.0 Early/2.3 Late, and 3.6early and 2.8 Late), transmissions and rear axles were European.

I bought the 1976 Model Year car in the avatar in 1978, drove it for a couple years, put it out to pasture, rebuilt the motor, blew the motor up put it out to pasture, and am rebuilding it the way i should have if I knew what i was doing the last time around. It will no have a correct SLA fron end and a 3 link or torque arm rear.