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wheels for a 68 dart

Old Jul 24, 2013 | 09:49 PM
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wheels for a 68 dart

i have a 68 dart sitting on stock 13's, i want to get some bigger wheels but having a little trouble finding some good wheels.
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Old Jul 25, 2013 | 06:28 AM
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How large do you want to go?

14" wheels were plentiful for the small Mopar bolt pattern, both stock and aftermarket. If you want larger than that you'll have to change the bolt pattern.

The earlier Darts had the small 4" bolt-pattern, making it hard to find wheels, but back-in-the-day we either used wheel-adapters, (4" to 4 1/2"), or redrilled to the 4 1/2" pattern and pressed-in new studs.

With the 4 1/2" bolt pattern you're able to pick from a plethora of Mopar and Ford wheels.

Now I understand there are later-model OEM pieces that will bolt-on the larger pattern. You can add disc-brakes at the same time, if you don't already have them.

I use to run 13" skinnies and Cragars on the front with the small pattern, and ran 15" Chrome wheels and cheaters on the back with redrilled axels. I cranked-up the torsion bars and she sit level and looked great. (Sure messed-up the front-end geometry, though!)
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Old Jul 26, 2013 | 09:40 AM
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thanks for the info, now the search for 14" 5X4 wheels.
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Old Jul 26, 2013 | 12:43 PM
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Darts and Valiants with disc brakes had 14" wheels.

I think 14" became standard on the '70 models, disc brakes or not.

Good luck.
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Old Jul 26, 2013 | 08:36 PM
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one quick question do they make trim rings for 13" mopar wheels ?
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Old Jul 28, 2013 | 04:09 PM
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At one time you could get 13" - 15" trim (beauty) rings at all of the auto supplies... Western Auto, Pep Boys, etc. Probably not now, althiough JC Whitney may still have them in there catalog.

Most of the time they were generic and they'd fit about any 13" wheel. 13" wheels were standard on a lot of cars back then, ie: Falcons, Chevy IIs, Valiants, etc, so they shouldn't be too rare.

Also, I'm not sure, but it seems like there may have been some 13" Rallys, and they would have had them.

Check this Ebay link:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/6000/i.html?...vxp=mtr&_rdc=2

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