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man Rich..your story there will scare the hell out of ya.. "impale you" doesnt sound like its worth anything, let alone 1800 bucks..I agree it better do somthin for ya other than Impale Ya...ha,ha... you guys crack me up..that wheel doesn't though...

ws27 Wrote:The story goes that if you are in an accident, you will break off the rim and impale yourself with the spikes left over.

Damn..

Barry, my argument is that I don't think I would want to live if I smashed my car up bad enough to break the wheel anyway. LOL

theman440 Wrote:I heard that people were sticking their fingers thru the slots and getting them broken. Probably when the wheel would jerk from hitting a curb or something like that.

I agree Jeff and I'll add that the openings in the 1967 only version of the recall wood grain wheels are also said to have sharp edges on the insides of those slots, which was impossible to fix due to the chrome finish that was used on the spokes. It seems that owners were actually getting serious cuts on their fingers when they would put their fingers through those slots while driving and some type of an emergency would happen and even cleaning these wheels was an adventure. From what I understand, Chrysler tried to fix this problem by placing "horn bars" in the spoke slots, but decided that it would be better to just redesign the spokes on the wood grain wheels, which they did in 1968. This was also not a problem on the 1966 wood grain wheels, because those wheels had solid spokes with no slots.

Below are some pictures of the various 1966, 1967 and 1968-69 wheels for comparison.

1966 version with a Plymouth horn button.





1967 "recall" version without the horn bars installed.





1967 version with the horn bars installed and a Plymouth horn button.







And the 1968-1969 version from a Plymouth Road Runner with the redesigned spokes.



Richard

ws27 Wrote:Barry, my argument is that I don't think I would want to live if I smashed my car up bad enough to break the wheel anyway. LOL

Can I have your other B-bodies when that happens? Please don't impale yourself on the copper 67 vert (or the blue GTX or the red GTX). I want that one (and the red one and the blue one). Come to think of it, if you're going to use the recall wheel to impale yourself, please consider putting it into your Chevy van first (no point in wasting a perfectly good B-body).

Jim 68cuda Wrote:Can I have your other B-bodies when that happens? Please don't impale yourself on the copper 67 vert (or the blue GTX or the red GTX). I want that one (and the red one and the blue one). Come to think of it, if you're going to use the recall wheel to impale yourself, please consider putting it into your Chevy van first (no point in wasting a perfectly good B-body).

I hear that he's going to put one of those recall wheels into a very nice white Plymouth B-Body station wagon that he has Jim.................

Richard

...I claim the '66 Coronet 500 Convertble!

You guys are going for the wrong things..

I got dibs on the parts

Easy there guys, remember, I'm younger than all of you. You have one of my feet already in the grave before me.

Mike's goin for gold....

I only look stupid!!