65 corvette wheels

[hedotwo]

I'm guessing these wheels are from the MPC 65 vette?  I know they aren't the annual AMT's.

[espo]

These represent the hub caps that were offered for the Corvette. 

[hedotwo]

But they're MPC?  Or?  Just curious.

Edited January 28 by hedotwo

[Mark]

Pretty sure they are AMT.  I don't think the MPC '64 and '65 Corvette kits had stock wheels.

[Can-Con]

1 hour ago, Mark said:

Pretty sure they are AMT.  I don't think the MPC '64 and '65 Corvette kits had stock wheels.

Mark, do you know if the AMT '65 Vette convertible and coupe kits had different chrome trees? 

The reason I ask is I have a set of Vette caps from my '65 convertible that the front looks the same as those but the back looks completely different. 

Could Rich's set be from the coupe kit?

[Len Woodruff]

On the real cars te 5 spoke werre used on the 66 Vettes and the 6 spoke was on the 65. Crazy huh. 

[Mark]

AMT coupes and convertibles '63-'67 were separate but similar tooling.  There were differences: coupes had the seats molded as part of the interior, convertibles had separate seats towards the end.  

The current '63 coupe kit is the original, updated through '67 and later revised back to '63.  The current '63 convertible kit is based on the coupe, with a newer body that was tooled by Ertl.  What remains of the old convertible kits is now the custom-only '68 kit.

[Mark]

Those are from the AMT '65 coupe kit.  I've got one, the wheel covers are still on the plated tree.  My convertible is pieced together from multiple sources, so I can't verify what it should have.  I've probably got a set of wheel covers for it, but those might be from another coupe.  I haven't looked at it recently.

As I said before, I don't think the MPC '65 has any stock wheel option.  Their '66 has the knockoff wheels, as does their '67 (though the 1:1 '67 had a revised bolt-on wheel without the knockoff).  Then again, their '66 and '67 still have the fuel injection stock engine.

[Mark]

Just found the convertible I'm piecing together.  I have an incomplete chrome tree with one wheel cover; the back side of it is smoother than those used in the coupe kit.  The optional wheels in the convertible are knockoff wheels, better executed than those in the '63 kits.

[hedotwo]

Thanks a bunch for all the replies, it's great to have good info here.  Here all along I was under the impression the wheels weren't AMT but I was wrong I guess.  To further confuse things... looks like AMT might have used another style all together for their 65 coupe promo (this one not mine).  Maybe that's why I was thinking they weren't AMT. 

Anyway, thanks again 

[Mark]

The kit wheel covers look rough in the visible areas.  The promo would have been done to GM's specifications (except the incorrect windshield trim on the coupe) so maybe the promos wheels represent what was originally intended.

[NOBLNG]

I imagine they are supposed to look like this.