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[GulfPetrolHead]

I swear when I started looking at wheels for my mini 10x6 steelies were pretty widely available through mini spares etc... now they seem to have disappeared entirely. Did they actually exist or have I gone crazy?! Does anyone know where I could get a set, even if they were a figment of my imagination?

[Tupers]

Well first off Coopers never came with 6x10 wheels.

A Weller used to make their own version of a reverse rim that used a standard 10" steel centre with their own hoops either 5", 5.5" or 6" wide. These have never been common and the only set I've seen were the ones I used to own and stupidly sold.

[GulfPetrolHead]

ahh okay, I could've sworn I saw 6x10 steelies for sale brand spanking new somewhere on the interweb. they weren't the genuine articles they were 'Cooper style' I suppose. Maybe I just wanted to see them ;)

[minimarco]

Maybe they werent steelies but were alloys made to look like steelies....

Edited by minimarco, 10 October 2012 - 10:52 PM.

[pdaykin]

5.5J steel wheels were available in the 60's/70s. These looked just like reverse rims. I seem to think that mine even have a dunlop stamp on them lik efactory wheels did - although I could be wrond its a long time since I took any notice

Most commonly found with "standard" mini offsets (which would fill wheel arch extensions) although Cooper S offset versions were also available.

If you search ebay they do occassionally come up.

[Artful Dodger]

All of the adtermarket wide steels would have had the original centres, as the company who made them would have bought the wheel centres and just made their own rims

[Cooperman]

Wide steels went out of favour as they are heavy compared to the now widely available alloy ones.

[leaky]

I have 1 of those Weller steels that 6" wide. Cant find any others any where!

[jonny d]

I used to have 10x6 banded weller wheels in the seventies painted snowberry white they looked the dogs wish I still had them