Don’t know much about wheels and am not really that into them but these in an ad for new Giulietta Cloverleaf caught my eye. They have an unusual curvy spiral design with fifteen spokes, five of which swirl to the centre hub and are picked out in silver against the remaining ten grey ones. Very pretty but maybe a bit too fussy?



I spotted some hideous, slabby, black and chrome ones on a Mustang paired with yucky metallic purple calipers. Wish I had snapped them.

Wheel design, as with everything else is subject to the vagaries of fashion. In the ten years that the S was in production the wheels went from five spoke through multi-spoke and back again, though of course when a trend is repeated it is subtly changed.

When I first saw my S I thought the wheels looked a bit agricultural and were one of my least favourite features of the car. Wouldn’t swap though, I like stock.

I have noticed a trend for boy racers to fit black multi-spoked wheels to their Corsas, VWs etc. They make the cars look like prams IMO.

Interested to hear about and preferably see your wheel loves and hates, past and present.

Can’t stop singing this now.
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Funny yo should mention the new Alfa. I saw some lovely wheels on a Mito the other day -

http://www.clutchd.com/wp-content/gallery/...-mito-gta-1.jpg

Very nice wheels!

 

Having just had my standard 16" refurbed standard finishb I think these are looking good. Not really into wheels, but I do know the 16 year old 15" steel radials on The Shed are hardly pretty, althougyh very functional. Unlikely to have these refurbed, so I just look up rather than down when I get in it!

LB

 

I have 17 inch classic Alfa Pepper Pot design
Perfect

Too many companies - Porsche included - use directional wheels, but only one design so one side of the car looks like the wheels are on back to front

 

When I was trying to find a decent pic of the Giulietta wheels, best viewed at an angle rather than face on, I read of Alfa 'telephone dial' wheels. Are these synonymous with 'pepper pot' wheels? TTIUWP

I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to research the black and silver alloy wheels that I think were fitted to MGB GTs in the seventies known as 'manhole covers'.

That is a very interesting fact about directional wheels.

Those Mito wheels are pretty too ID. I'm going to pay a lot more attention to this subject in future.

 

don't remember any alloys on MGBs at that time

you don't mean the black and silver painted Rostyles?

 

Here's a pic of my 156GTA complete with teledials / pepperpots outside Lingotto (the hotel and former Fiat factory in Turin.

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?act=m...mage&img=724277

 

Told you I don't know much about wheels. Yes they're the ones I mean. A friend of ours had them on one of these.



Anybody else remember them being known as 'manhole covers'?

 

That could be me in my S with black RE30s...

... but back OT. These are my wheels of desire, on my favourite car, in my favourite colour.

 

What gets me going to this day are the Williams 15" gold alloys and the very similar Pug 205/309 Gti 1.9



My pepper pot, teledial 17" alloys on my GTV V6 were beautiful and Alfa do have a tendancy to make lovely alloys