CC wheels for my '59

[Kurt Arends]

I stopped by Fred Simons' place in Newton, Iowa today to try to get an answer to this '59/'60 rim issue, which has been eating at me. Fred owns one Series 75 for every year, 1953 through 1963 and possibly more. He also has a yard full of other Cadillacs of the same vintage. His '59 and '60 Series 75s were both sitting there with no wheel covers. What I saw on those two Series 75s confirms what Paul's document states and what I had suspected. It looks like all '57 through '60 C.C.s/Series 75s used the same rim. The "star pattern" reversed rims(rivets visible) are 1956 only. The '57 through '60 rims are also "star pattern", but not reversed(rivets not visible). I did take photos with my digital camera, but my laptop is not letting me download them tonight for some reason. I will post the photos on Thursday night when I return home on my home computer.

Here are the photos I too this week of Fred Simons ' '59 Series 75 and '60 Series 75 with original C.C. rims.

 

[Daniel Scully]

Rims

the 3 rivet rims were the heavy duty wheel. as the bolt pattern is the same back as far as the 30s the mix and match game makes it hard to say what wheel any one car came out of the factory with. my 72 cb ambulance had the 3 rivet disk wheels on it. the 72 CB Seville has 2 rivet disk wheels on it. one wheel on each car still had the original spare. the 75 Cb had the welded wheels. none of these were CC cars. none had the hole drilled. I can supply you with a picture of a original 58 CC rim with the 890 still on it. I just can't tell you for a fact that it came out on this car in 58. same as the original spare in the 69. I can tell you that the 890 off the 58 is about 2 inches taller then the 890 off the 69. here is the 58 wheel

This is a pic of the original spare out of my 72 C/B , no rivets but does have the small hole in the rim.

 

[Kurt Arends]

Apparently, C-B did not use the standard GM C.C. rim like Superior did on their Pontiac coaches in the '70s.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

or they only used it on the high top ambulances. can I trade you out of that spare. I can match it up