The wife and the kids are at work today, so I headed to the garage this afternoon to enjoy this beautiful weather and start going through the parts I brought back and do some light wrenching on the Bug. As you can imagine, I've accumulated a lot of "stuff" over the years. Most of stuff I left in California, but I did have a few "must haves" that came back with us, and few "oh cool I have room for these".
The main project for this afternoon was to take a closer look at these wheels. There wheels were sold by many vendors back in the day, but most people refer to them as "Gurneys". These wheels can be found in three different forms, all related to the center wheel cap.
1. Bolt on center caps
2. Center hole with bevel
3. No bevel in center hole.
My wheels have the bevel. You can see the bevel in the photos of the back of the wheel. I have the lug/studs/washers, but eventually I am going to embark on finding a set of center caps.
At the moment I only have one set of matching wheels here in Wyoming, these Gurney/Western aluminum wheels. They are 15" x 5.5" cast aluminum, so they aren't the lightest, but they aren't a common sight. In fact I have found very little information about these wheels.
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