Discussions board for the classic MG MGA.
I sold more than a few set of the 15x6 VTO wheels to MGA owners, but I don't have any file photos of the cars with the wheels on them, if anyone who post here has VTO wheels on there MGA, and has a good picture of them, could you please send me copy of that photo via email, also if you would let me know what tire size you are running. My email can be reach by clicking on my link at the bottom of this post. Thank you.
Hap, send me a set for testing and photo shooting. I'll return them I promise.
I here ya Gary :D
Andy, I looking for MGA with VTO wheels on them, those are Minitor wheels. Both I and VTO Prescott have sold more than few sets of these for MGAs, we just never got any photos of them on the cars.
Here's a photo from the Superlite days, this is the 15x6 +24mm on a MGA coupe
While we're trolling for photos, I'd like to see either the "Lemans" or "Retro4" on an A.
I bought one vto wheel 8 months ago from gbcarparts for test fit, i used a 195/65/15 sumitomo htr 200 tire. Test drove it on the front and nothing rubbed, looks really nice though i dont like the plastic center caps and when installed they chip off all the paint around the wheel hub area. Wheel still looks good without center cap, so i might run them without. When i get around to buying 3 more wheels and tires, i will post pictures.
Hey Hap, where can I buy just a set of the centers???
Landon
Funny story about DOT spline wheel load testing. We were heavily involved in the Superlite distributor days in the invention and R&D of the Superlite splined wheels, my 67 GT was used as the R&D and a test bed for those wheels. During the stage of DOT load testing, which one should know is way greater load forces than most of us would ever encounter in real life, we failed the DOT load test over, and over again, but it is not what you would think. Brand new stock MG splined hubs were part of the DOT load test jig, and thats what kept failing the damn test, they would break, well it was not our job to test this part, but rather the wheels, but the ssplined hib was need as part of the test jig, so to get the wheel to pass the load test we had to make a super strong solid steel splines MG hubs, so the MG part would not fail, and the wheel would pass the load test :D
Here are some bad pictures of a vto 8 spoke 15x6 +24mm 195/65/15 sumitomo htr 200 on mga:
I looked MGA with vto wheels on it. But I don’t have any picture of this .really looks nice.
speed racer cartoon
here is another pic of the vto, will get better pictures out in the sun eventually.
