tires and wheels Whose white '02 is on the February '02 Calendar?

[02fanatic]

Very clean look.....are those Borrani steel wheels?...sweet!

Nice humble living quarters in the background, but where the hell is the garage man???? :-)

John

[eastsidebimmer]

The car rides on 1968 Opel Ralle wheels made by the same company that did wheels for BMW--starts with an "L". Centercaps are from the E30 steel wheel parts bin.

The location shot is from the Oldfields–Lilly House on the campus of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. No visible carriage house that I can see.

I bought the car in 2005 from Peter Sliskovich in S. California. If anyone knows the history of this car, VIN 1661250 please let me know. The story is the original owner died, family had the car, kept it in storage for 7-8 years and then was sold to Peter who in turn fliped it to me. I paid for a State of CA owner records search which had:

Owner Name: 00/00/0000

New owner Name: some date in 1998

Peter Sliskovitch: 02/**/2005

This sort-of checks out with the story of being a "one family owner" car before Peter got it, but I don't have any other history.

Thanks everyone!

Ben

[02fanatic]

That's interesting....

Re the wheels: I'm surprised I didn't recognize them as I used to have two Opels...one a '70 GT the other a '67 Rallye Kadette (or was it a '68?). I loved the GT...I hated the Kadette (a real dog).

[eastsidebimmer]

I believe they are the same ones that were later uses on GTs but these early ones came without the clips for the large centercap and trim ring. These are date stamped 12/67.

Ben

[f1reverb]

(nt)

[eastsidebimmer]

These on ebay were from a Fiat X19 and are 4x98

[JsnPpp]

Car looks so clean, puts mine to shame. :-) Those wheels look just like Borrani to me...

Jason

[jgmgti]

Very pretty car...some more pix would be great.

Thanks

Jonathan

[Arshloch]

Cant beat the yearly 02' look with no side markers and middle trim.

Same as my car

[eastsidebimmer]

http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s111/mobiletradition/?action=view&slideshow=true

[Mike Self]

those used by BMW--same mfg--Lemmerz, and came in 4.5 and 5" rim widths. The Opel wagons of 1970 or so vintage and later used the plain 5" rims long before 5" tii rims were available--put 'em on my '69 about 1971 or so...the only difference was that the relationship between the three ears on the wheel that the hubcap clipped to and the hole for the valve stem was different on the Opel and BMW wheel so that the valve stem hole in the BMW wheel cover didn't align with the valve stem on the Opel wheel. Otherwise they worked just fine.

The Opel wheels came in several flavors: plain (just like the BMW wheels), slotted (like in Ben's picture) in both paint and chrome and styled as was used on the Opel GT and late Rallyes. All were 13" with a 4x100mm lug pattern...

mike

[02fanatic]

Great Pics Man!!!! Gorgeous car...nicely done!

John