Genuine American Racing Equipment 12 Spoke 15 X 3.5 Inch Magnesium Rim on 2040-parts.com

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GENUINE AMERICAN RACING EQUIPMENT 12 SPOKE 15 X 3.5 INCH MAGNESIUM RIM 

For sale is one (1) American Racing Equipment (ARE) 12-Spoke true Magnesium rim that is 15-inches in diameter X 3.50-inches in width. These 12 spoke magnesium rims, especially in as good condition as this one, are becoming rare. The pictures tell the tale on this rim. It is possibly an early Ford or Anglia spindle mount rim. Following proper, professional modification, this rim may be used on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. This rim has all of the American Racing Equipment hallmarks cast into its spokes, which was characteristic of ARE manufacturing processes. This rim is sound. I would not hesitate to run it on any of my Harleys. If the rim does not sell for what I list it at, then I am going to keep it for a Harley project I have going. This is an excellent rim and the lucky buyer will not be disappointed.

Please note: this rim is also listed on Cragslist in Redding, CA and is subject to prior sale.

American Racing Equipment

Romeo Palamides founded American Racing Equipment and ARE owes its legacy to him. Nevertheless, Palamides owes the wheel that put him on the map to circle-track legend Rolla Vollstedt. Vollstedt had wood patterns made to cast a dished magnesium wheel. “My wheels were just solid, they had no spokes,” he said. “I had the pattern made so I could put a spacer in and make the wheel an inch wider, you know so I could run them on the front or rear.”

American Racing Torq Thrust

Probably no other part is as immediately recognizable as the five-spoke wheel that American Racing Equipment introduced in the 1960s. Though copied with impunity, the company gets the ultimate honor: show any enthusiast a copycat five-spoke wheel and chances are they will identify it as a Torq-Thrust. In 1966 American Racing machined the Torq-Thrust spokes for caliper clearance. That year it created the Torq-Thrust D, a wheel with spokes curved to clear larger Corvette calipers. This is the somewhat faithful version that American introduced in 1988. Rolla Vollstedt continues, “But then I found that I could buy them ready-made from Halibrand for less than it cost me so, I sold my patterns to a guy down around the Bay Area named Romeo Palamides.” Palamides made them his own by first adding material to create trapezoidal holes in the wheel face and further widened the wheels.

When they debuted on Palamides' handsome dragster that graced the cover of the November 1956 edition of Hot Rod, Palamides Racing Equipment was born. When Palamides asked to be cashed out so he could go racing, machinist Jim Ellison and engineer Tom Griffith changed the name to American Racing Equipment.

American Racing introduced dozens of wheel variations over its long and storied history—far too many to honor here. It still produces relatively faithful copies of many of its most famous wheels to this day.

12-Spoke Wheels

The second iconic wheel American Racing Equipment produced is the 12-spoke magnesium rim. As a spindle mount, it lacked provisions for brakes, it is drag-racing only equipment though later it caught on among T-bucket builders. The first 12 spoke was the 15 X 3.5 but later, ARE offered 12 spoke rims in 18 X 2, and then 18 X 3.50. All of the American Racing Equipment 12-spoke rims are magnesium castings. Several companies produce aluminum variations of this design.

 

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