smooth saleen wheels

xr8d302 · Mar 15, 2010

It depends, are you trying to build a complete showcar? If so, then you might want to look elsewhere, but if you're going to have a daily driver, pitting can be polished to near invisibility, and curb rash, depending on the severity, won't bring the cost down to the low price he's asking.

What I see is a guy who has NO idea what the value of these wheels are, so if they're in decent shape, pick em up, and if worst comes to worst, turn'em back over. You'll at least make your money back.

mustanghunter50 · Mar 15, 2010

im definately not looking to build a show car....not with the car i have atleast, lol. ya im not sure that he knows the value either...i asked the brand of them to see if they were replicas and he kept saying saleen, so i'm going to assume they are saleen wheels....i shall find out in a few hours

xr8d302 · Mar 15, 2010

As far as I know, and I could be wrong, but I'm pretty damn sure....that nobody makes a replica wheel of that exact style.

mustanghunter50 · Mar 15, 2010

ya i dont think they do either, i looked all over the internet and couldnt even find those wheels....i guess they are pretty rare

mustanghunter50 · Mar 15, 2010

got the wheels...they're authentic...they say saleen right on the lip/wall on the outside...theyre in decent shape, except one has some chrome peeling right around the center cap...i'm just going to get it re finished if i can...the other good thing is the rears have 285 35 18 nittos on them...i ended up paying 450$ for them

95BlueStallion · Mar 15, 2010

mustanghunter50 said:
got the wheels...they're authentic...they say saleen right on the lip/wall on the outside...theyre in decent shape, except one has some chrome peeling right around the center cap...i'm just going to get it re finished if i can...the other good thing is the rears have 285 35 18 nittos on them...i ended up paying 450$ for them

Nice work! Here I thought the lipped ones were our style, and the smooth were the new edge, but I was backward. Its cool that you found the ones that belong on Saleen stangs of our years. I cant imagine it costing more than 4 or $500 to get all four redipped in chrome. Then they would look new and still be a good value.

Killercanary · Mar 15, 2010

mustanghunter50 said:
got the wheels...they're authentic...they say saleen right on the lip/wall on the outside...theyre in decent shape, except one has some chrome peeling right around the center cap...i'm just going to get it re finished if i can...the other good thing is the rears have 285 35 18 nittos on them...i ended up paying 450$ for them

DAMN, you're one lucky SOB! I had emailed the guy but I didn't get a response from him. I knew what those were and I planned to make a road trip to get them. Oh well, congrats to you. Just be careful with them as they are known to crack around the spokes and you more than likely won't find a replacement for them.... I still wanted them though for my cobra for the street.

xr8d302 · Mar 16, 2010

Paul, if he hadn't moved on them, I had my email button ready to send as well

haha

I'd have made a trip that far south to pick up wheels like that for so cheap

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

hahaha ya i find some good deals on craigslist. although these are far from perfect shape i figured i could just get them re chromed so make them better... does anyone know any good placed in the northeast for that? thanks

xr8d302 · Mar 16, 2010

Honestly could not help you with that....Any pics of them close up yet?

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

not yet, i will try to get some after work today, if not later in the week

95PGTTech · Mar 16, 2010

Yea these were about 5 miles from my house i was gonna leap if he didnt. Good find. Re chroming is not cheap... just throwing that out there... maybe get them media blasted and powder coated?

-Adam95gt (too lazy to log out)

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

ya re chroming is about 225$ per wheel.... thats the cheapest i found. i may end up powder coating them...will that affect their value a lot?

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

i tend to never keep anything on my vehicles terribly long anyway....so i dont know if it's worth doing...like i said before i dont have a show car...so i may just deal with it, they look good from a little bit away

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

just found one of the rears had a screw right on the edge of the tire....i patched it and am hoping itll hold...it was awfully close to the edge which makes me nervous....i dont want to have to buy another nitto right now...

Killercanary · Mar 16, 2010

mustanghunter50 said:
just found one of the rears had a screw right on the edge of the tire....i patched it and am hoping itll hold...it was awfully close to the edge which makes me nervous....i dont want to have to buy another nitto right now...

I'll buy the tire if you give me the wheels. Seriously, let me know if you get tired of them.

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

im gonna try to get the pictures from my phone on here shortly...they should be up tonight

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

pics of the new wheels

here are two...

YEAHLOH95 · Mar 16, 2010

wow they look great , i always wanted a set but could never find any, thats why i went with 99 cobras for so long

mustanghunter50 · Mar 16, 2010

thanks... they raised my car by an inch or more...here are two more pics...

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