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« on: July 25, 2007, 15:29:45 pm »

fuschs were put on a cal look  Huh Huh ,early 70's  Huh i remember a vw greats cover with red cal look in was december 75 but i 'm looking in my old issue(73 , 74) and never saw a cal look with fuschs wheels in the magazine , who had the idea to put porsches wheels on a bug  Roll Eyes  Grin
here's the car on the cover Wink
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 15:36:47 pm »

Also, how come Fuchs ended up in Cal Look Volkswagens:

Because Porsche owners in early 70's wanted to update their cars with wider tyres/rims and narrower Fuchs were available cheap and sizes/offset suited (even better than some aftermarket vw-wheels) Beetles?

Because people wanted to use Porsche parts in Volkswagens?

And here is issue 8/1971 of Gute Fart  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 16:12:14 pm »

The Best People to Ask are the Boys At F.A.T. Performance they were the First To Re Drill Drums and Rotors and Made The First Sets of Large 5 Bolt to Porsche 5 bolt Wheel Adapters  Back In the Day Most Porsche Owners Were updating the Cars to look like the newer Models with Flairs,wider wheels and Bigger Brakes, When I worked at Auto Haus back in the Mid 70's  you could Buy a set Of Porsche Alloys for about $400.00 a set  back then the 15x7's were a little more because the Porsche Owners ran the 7's in front and A wider wheel in the rear Some of the First car to Run Alloys was Keith Goss (Chopped Top), Roger Grago( K Ghia), Frenchys Ghia, Geno Combs Notchback all ran alloys in the 70's
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 17:02:45 pm »

Yeah, I can remember a friend of mine buying a set of 4.5`s and 5.5`s with tires from a guy building a wide bodied Speedster replica. The price? $450.00. Thats was the late 80`s and that was kind of expensive.
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