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Cragar Super Tricks...where are they?

33 IMP said:
Centerline did start stamping their logo on autodrags, but not for the first 20 years or so. I have ( I think) four sets of 'lines and none have a logo.
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Where in California are you ?
 
Two miles from Pomona fairgrounds, home of nhra winternationals. ( I'm sure you know, moparcrazy, info for others).
I used to drive my 62 Savoy to the track, run 11s at the street legals, which they used to have until Nhra wanted a 50th anniversary and killed them to pacify the neighbors. Then we'd drive for an in-n-out double-double and drive home.
 
I think the "Super Tricks" in the ad are Street Super Tricks. Not at all close to the original spun aluminum race wheels.
 
I'd like to chime in on this if I may. Having had Super Tricks on my GTX since '75 and special ordering the rear pair for the correct back spacing. The person posting the ad even states they can't be sure if they are genuine. I have never seen rivets holding Super Tricks together, only Centerlines. The seller also states "never seen riveted on the front and bolted on the back". Tell me how? Any center cap can be used on any wheel with the same size center hole.
My thoughts... Bob :moparsmiley:
 
66Satellite47 said:
I think the "Super Tricks" in the ad are Street Super Tricks. Not at all close to the original spun aluminum race wheels.
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No offense, but I think you are mistaken. Street supers were aluminum centers,chromed, with cast in steel lugs ,welded to steel hoops. They had about 15 phony hex head bolts, trying to look like super tricks. The were horrible wheels. They did have a visible seam where the center was joined to the hoop.
The wheels in question have twenty rivets holding the halves together, silicone sealer at the joint, both dead giveaway of centerline.
Also, the guy is selling a fraud for outrageous money.
 
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33 IMP said:
Centerline did start stamping their logo on autodrags, but not for the first 20 years or so. I have ( I think) four sets of 'lines and none have a logo.
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Mea culpa, I went and checked my "collection " and two of my sets DO have centerline logos on them, but my old set of autodrags, early 80s vintage, definitely don't.
 
Now I'm confused. My vintage cl autodrags have 25 rivets, my super tricks have 15 grade eight bolts, the fronts in question in the ebag ad have 20 rivets. Wth? Did centerline use fewer rivets in the beginning, or more? (28 rivets, front and rear, on newer model centerline prostocks.)
 
33 IMP said:
No offense, but I think you are mistaken. Street supers were aluminum centers,chromed, with cast in steel lugs ,welded to steel hoops. They had about 15 phony hex head bolts, trying to look like super tricks. The were horrible wheels. They did have a visible seam where the center was joined to the hoop.
The wheels in question have twenty rivets holding the halves together, silicone sealer at the joint, both dead giveaway of centerline.
Also, the guy is selling a fraud for outrageous money.
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OK, I've been wrong before & will be again. The point is that those are not Super Tricks. I never payed any attention to the Street Super Tricks since they were such fakes.
 
Super Tricks are the sexiest wheels of all time!

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Brian, did you sell that red 63 wagon to somebody in california? If not, there is an absolute twin to yours racing locally, same year,color,patina, everything.
 
I just bought a set of 12" super tricks and one of the wheels is missing most of the bolts and the spacer that goes between the two halves and the studs go through it. I would buy a damaged complete wheel if nessesary.
 
glassman said:
I just bought a set of 12" super tricks and one of the wheels is missing most of the bolts and the spacer that goes between the two halves and the studs go through it. I would buy a damaged complete wheel if nessesary.
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What backspace?
 
May have to pull the spacer out of the other wheel and take it to get a duplicate machined...
 
33 IMP said:
Brian, did you sell that red 63 wagon to somebody in california? If not, there is an absolute twin to yours racing locally, same year,color,patina, everything.
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@brian.linn last night at irwindale dragstrip in california. Ran 6.60 / 104 eighth with a 432. Sorry about the horrible pictures, he was rolling out to make a pass.

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