it was silver with black and green stripes set out like a castrol race car and belonged to some one from ether clasic ford or retro ford this would be greatly apreciated

 

there's a few here mate..

http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=96591


belongs to Jon Betts at Classic Ford... done by retromotorsport and Central Blast Cleaning (and Jon himself)

 

thats the one did he change the wheels later on

 

not as far as I'm aware. I believe Jon's will still be running the gold Image split rims.

 

whats the biggest diameter and width wheel to go on a mk1 with bubbles

 

now you're asking...
potentially huge...are you willing to move the chassis rails? do you want tubs? what ride height are you runing at?
there are mk1s in Norway which I'm sure are running either 17 or 18s, (looks a bit weird though imo!) and I think Retro_al's one (check the resto section either here or on turbosport) can run 11" wide rears and 10" fronts, but that's with tubs and modifications to the bubbles.
potentially if you went for a drag style rear end and tubs that nearly met in the middle you could run really massive rims/tyres. depends on what you're using the car for i guess!

edited to add... i would say the typical on a tubbed car would be 10 or 11 by 15s on the rear and 9 or 10 by 15s on the front.

 

my plan is to have some big deep dish wheels and have realy low profile tires and for the top to sit up in the arches like they do with some of the american muscle cars these days

 

Thats fuckin well rude!!!

 

just found a almost new 2 door mk1 shell its locle and not much money

 

 

Really nice, dont think the wheels are wide enough tho, are at least should be lower offset to compensate.

Like my Volvo





My Mk2 Escort works arches arrived today I think, time to start the work...

 

steve, Can you get a side on picture?!

 

Best i could manage at the time, driveway too narrow...



Now THATS not pussying around crying about width and offset

 

Insane stavros!!

They really going on that volvo?!

 

the wheels on Jon's car aren't massively wide iirs, but he hasn't had the rear (or front) tubbed.
obviously you can only go as far as the bubble and standard tub will allow in that case. People usually run narrowed axles (I think retro_al's is 37.5" or something,) and with the tubs, you can run really deep dish wide wheels.

 

steve stop messing with scrap yark shitters

 

 

Coldo- Yes mate, honest to god.

Gareth- No, they fun! And if we on about 300 series Volvos, a lot more capable/potential than most cars!

 

but its still a shitter

 

Its mint actually! And rare as fuck. Performance per Ł is off the charts as a car to modify too.

300 Saloons rule




Anyhow, back to topic...

 

iv seen 17" wheels on what i beleve what was a blue mk2 with black and white stripes