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Originally Posted by RodKnock
Dan, were you ever able to find a set of mag (or alloy) TTD's for your Cobra, that were acceptable, of course?
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No. I was never the lucky one to find wheels before the wheeler dealers got them. I missed a new old stock set of five each 15X6 circa 1984. They were advertised in print and unfortunately I was the second caller. They sold cheaper than a set of common aluminum wheels for a daily driver. The man bought a new Cobra, then bought the wheels, and then decided not to use them. New in the box wheels two decades old at the time, wow.
Friends of mine have spent vulgar amounts for excellent sets, often buying multiple sets to get good ones. I read a magazine interview where somebody bought six sets to get one set that looked good and passed non-destructive testing. The only reason they stepped up and paid the price was the cars they had were originally sold with them new. One person tracked down the set removed from his car long ago but the current user has no interest in reuniting the wheels to the car they came new on. My black car didn’t come with magnesium wheels so my interest in paying insane amounts for used decades old magnesium wheels that might have undisclosed issues was not very strong. I gave up in 2013 and traded off all the wheels. I do have some left over “drag” wheel steel hardware sets. (I tried to get American Racing interested in making a run of aluminum wheels. I offered the best wheel assembly I had, the nearly new 15X6 shown in the pictures, as a holotype. The answer was no. I checked on having a mold made for just the wheels. The lowest estimate years ago now was $38,000 for the mold, not counting machining, testing for DOT approval, or any adapter hardware, or the per wheel cost. Dead end for my budget.)