Just Another Set of Minilites?

It's amazing what you can pick up on eBay. Here's what looks like a really tatty set of Minilites a previous owner decided to paint red. However, these are magnesium Minilites that have spent the past 20 years or so on a TR6 down Salisbury way. The seller had owned the wheels since 1985 and was told they had come from Abingdon Special Tuning Department. Apparently they'd come off a car that had "competed in a Monte Carlo Rally" or something. When I suggested it was maybe the World Cup Rally, he said, "yeah that's it". The tyres aren't bad either. Ho hum...

5½J Steel Dunlop Rims

Here's my set of 5½J steel Dunlop rims nicely powder coated ready for rubber. Just need to source some decent original hub caps to finish them off as the repro hub caps currently available don't have quite the right shape around the centres.

Old Rims - Cosmic Alloys

I can't see the point in keeping these, so onto eBay they go. They cleaned up quite well and show no sign of being scuffed or kerbed.


and for everything you ever wanted to know about Cosmics, checkout www.cosmic-wheels.com...

New Rims

After suffering a puncture last week, the decision to replace the worn out (but just about legal) tyres came to the fore.

The 13" Cosmics the car came with were never really my cup of tea, so after a little shopping around - and a few annoying last minute outbids on eBay - I've gone for a 15" 6J Minilite rim, (15mm offset and 103mm backspace), shod with 195 60 BF Goodrich tyres. I blew all my budget on the rims, so I thought I'd take a punt on the tyres.

I went to Headley Tyres (details below). The fitter used to banger race a MkII 2000 so appreciated the slightly out-of-the-norm task of fitting the MkI. They took the care to make sure any weights went on the inside of the rim, didn't use air tools to fit the nuts, and removed the old tyres off the Cosmic rims. All in all a very good job, and they didn't take all day doing it.

Headley Tyres
Newbury Road
Headley
Berkshire RG19 8LG
Tel: 01635 268384