Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) Looking for any info I can find on Hand wheels, they are shown in the AMT 63 Vette convertible Kit # 06-913-149. Also in the Lindberg Mustang II kit No. 72169. Anything will be of great help.. Thanks Edited title... Edited December 15, 2023 by Vintage AMT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) Are you talking about spinners aka suicide knobs? Edited December 15, 2023 by NOBLNG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Sorry, but no... here is a scan from the Vette instruction, wheel to the right of tire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Here is a picture of the ones found in the Lindberg kit.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) Try this? Around reply#32. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c1-and-c2-corvettes/4228845-vintage-wheel-works-ps-engineering-2.html Edited December 15, 2023 by NOBLNG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Thanks Greg, those are Minilite's. whole different wheel.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 The Corvette convertible annual kit (not the reissues) has them, they are better than the Lindberg units as the AMT ones have open holes. One of the AMT Hot Rod Shop (parts packs from the Sixties, reissued a couple of times) has a set also, that set is four-lug however. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack L Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 the amt 67 monza annual has a set of 13 inch 5 lugs and the XR-6 has some with no lugs and knockoffs as far as history ck Hands Engineering not much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Finally thought to look up the real Mustang, here is the real wheel, but no mention yet of them in any of the articles on it. Will keep looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 do you need some of these wheels? i've got loads of them somewhere. I thought they were trailer wheels or wellers, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack L Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 21 minutes ago, Vintage AMT said: Finally thought to look up the real Mustang, here is the real wheel, but no mention yet of them in any of the articles on it. Will keep looking. good luck most I found was go kart parts in the early 60s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 found a catalogue https://vintagewheelcatalogs.com/hands/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 28 minutes ago, stitchdup said: do you need some of these wheels? i've got loads of them somewhere. I thought they were trailer wheels or wellers, lol Thanks for the offer, I have a few sets as well. Trying to build something different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage AMT Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Just now, stitchdup said: found a catalogue https://vintagewheelcatalogs.com/hands/ Well, now that is awesome, thanks a bunch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 some more info, seems they were also on the corvairs https://www.corvair.org/chapters/lvcc/lvcc_newsletters/lvcc_2018_10_fifth_wheel.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 5 hours ago, stitchdup said: do you need some of these wheels? i've got loads of them somewhere. I thought they were trailer wheels or wellers, lol You might be thinking of steel wheels with similar shape openings in them. Those would be used in trailers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Well, this is crazy....... I was just perusing Craigslist and ran across this ad! He calls them 'Dan Gurney' wheels........... https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/wto/d/northridge-vintage-1970-dan-gurney/7697769989.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 (edited) Probably a later version of the Hands wheel, or a copy. I wonder what those were used on in the past, the 5 on 5" pattern is pretty much limited to 2WD pickups and fullsize passenger cars. On a similar note, Sears carried Cragar S/S wheels when they first came out, only theirs were named A.J. Foyt wheels! They did have Foyt center caps (I have seen a couple of those). Sears wound up swapping the Foyt center caps for the normal Cragar ones to clear the wheels out, the Foyt caps are probably really tough to find now... Edited December 17, 2023 by Mark Spell check 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vairnut Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 The Hands wheels were used on Corvair Fitch Sprints and Sunbeam Tigers. The only source for them in scale that I know of is the original 1967 Corvair Monza AMT kit. The wheels in the AMT parts pack are similar but the spokes are flat not curved. These flat wheels I think are in the AMT Corvair funny car kit or one of the other funny car kits. The Corvair Club newsletter article mentions the various copies that were available. I've got a few 1:1 sets and my 1966 Corsa has the 13" Offy copies on it. I also have a couple sets of 14" 4 lug versions that will go on my early ( 1960-1964) Corvairs. About 10 years ago there was a reproduction run of the Hands wheels in 13" 4 lug and 5 lug. I think these were done in cooperation with the Sunbeam Tiger owners as well as the major Corvair parts supplier. I do have a set of these reproduction wheels as well. I've been searching for a long time to find a set of 14" or 15" 5lug 4.75 bolt circle to use on my 1965/66 Corvairs with no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustyMojave Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Back in the 60s I was pretty fond of the Hands mags. I know that some were intended for racing only and were cast magnesium. Some were intended and sold for use on the street and were cast in aluminum. I'm not sure who actually cast the ones that were sold as "Dan Gurney" wheels in the late 60s/early 70s. I've mostly encountered them on VW Bugs in the 4-lug 15" x 5" version. I may still have some of the ones from my original issue 63 Vette kits. Although those models were destroyed in the Sylmar earthquake of '71. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exotics_Builder Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 These are the ones in my 1967 Corvair kit. The 66 and 69 kits have different wheels. I don't have a 1968. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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