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Hap,
What's VTO?"
Bruno, VTO is the brand name which is our own brand. Most of you know this, but I have buddy who races Sprites, I built him a few engines over the years and we became good friends, anyway he got in the wheel business and became the US Superlite importer, and made me a distributor, over the years I helped with marketing, product R&D, trade shows, display at car show as well as sell the wheels. The opportunity arose for us to make our own wheels, which allowed us more input into design, so now we make our own wheels, we wanted a smoother finish on the spokes, a shiney machined lip, and lighter weight, and that's what we have the other sizes and styles will phase in over the next year, and we still have some Superlite product to sell, but not in this size. The wheel shown is called the VTO Classic 8 (I came up with that name), then later will come the Retro 4, whch will be a modern remake of the Libre wheel.
Frank, yes silver is the other color option.
Steve, funny you should mention that, after the Superlite splined wheels are gone, I doubt we will make anymore spline drive wheels, this market is kinda of iffy at best, fiquire if you got 10 guys with a spoke wheel cars, 9 want new spokes, so it's not a market to get real excited about.
Alot of what you see in the new wheel has to do with you guys, we've been listening. Over the years I had alot of request for a black center wheels, and while charcoal grey sold pretty well, we listened to our customer and made a black center on the new wheels. Weight was another issue that came up, (Curtis you listneing :) ) well we right there with Pansport Ultralites at a much better price. always saw Superlite as being a nicer looking product than Minitor, but still not quite as nice as Pansport, but now IMHO, I' ll put this wheel up against any of the 8 spoke designs as for weight and cosmetic appearence, and at our same pricing, the best classic 8 spoke wheel on the market.
