[ROVERNET - UK] Wheels

[David Walker]

No such thing as bad fodder when sipping Guinness!Surely?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fritz Rauschenberg" <wfritz at mindspring.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Wheels


> Glen,
> Thanks for the attachment as it may have solved the problem-We might be
> dealing in semantics here. The photo of the Magnum 500 wheel shows it to
be
> exactly what is on my 69 TC unless I'm missing something. They appear to
be
> pressed steel chrome plated wheels with a portion of the inner circle
> painted-and they appear to be what was referred to as Rostyle wheels in
> James Taylor's book "ROVER P6" 63 - 77. So, I'm suggesting that the Magnum
> 500 and the Rostyles are one & the same-perhaps Rostyle was one of the
> manufacturers early on and the wheels got tagged with Rostyle as a name
for
> the wheels. Your thoughts? And that reminds me of Coca-Cola. Was Coca-Cola
> the first to use "Cola" as part of their name or was Cola the generic name
> for a soft drink and then Pepsi-Cola used the Cola portion. So, was Cola
> stolen? Was Rostyle in a similar situation? Good fodder for sipping a
> Guinness.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fritz Rauschenberg
> Atlanta
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Glen Wilson <rovercar at comcast.net>
> > To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> > Date: 7/31/2006 11:37:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Wheels
> >
> > http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/rovercar/nadatc/nada.htm
> >
> > If you go to the above address, we have a brochure from the NADA TC
> > which was the first TC offered in the USA. I believe this was from 1967.
> > It shows two optional wheels: the Magstar and the Magnum 500. So, at
> > this point in time, Rover specifically identified the wheels as Magnum
> > 500 wheels, not Rostyle. I don't think Rostyle wheels were ever
> > available on a Rover in the USA. They were available on MG's and others.
> > So, for the TC, there were the standard steel wheels with wheel covers
> > and two optional wheels. The Magstars are rare, but they do turn up.
> > There was a car for sale at a towing company in CA a few months ago that
> > had Magstars. Just to add some confusion, I have been told that the NADA
> > TC wheels and the Federal 3500S Magnum wheels are not interchangeable. I
> > am guessing that the hubs were the same but that the V8 wheels were
> > wider and possibly offset differently.  The V8 cars also had larger
> > brakes.  I know you can't put the V8 wheels on the 4-cyl cars because
> > the V8 cars had lower arms shaped to accomodate the wheels while the
> > 4-cyl cars have the original design.
> >
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