"Fifth Avenue" wheels, 15" - will they fit?

[darth_linux]

Will 15" wheels off of a mid 80s Fifth Avenue fit a C Body. Supposedly they are 15" with a 5 x 4.5" bolt pattern. I don't know if it's an M-body or an R-body, and the salvage yard is confirming they are 5 x 114.3mm and not 5 x 100mm.

Also hoping they have the 3 "nubs" for dog dish hub caps, if anyone happens to know . . .

thanks!

 

[Just Carbs]

My 64 full-size likes them.

 

[D Cluley]

Not sure about the nubs, but the wheels fit nicely on my '65. Thats's where the wheel covers came from as well.

 

[Boydsdodge]

Will 15" wheels off of a mid 80s Fifth Avenue fit a C Body. Supposedly they are 15" with a 5 x 4.5" bolt pattern. I don't know if it's an M-body or an R-body, and the salvage yard is confirming they are 5 x 114.3mm and not 5 x 100mm.

Also hoping they have the 3 "nubs" for dog dish hub caps, if anyone happens to know . . .

thanks!

Yes they will fit, good wheel.

 

[Ripinator]

Will 15" wheels off of a mid 80s Fifth Avenue fit a C Body. Supposedly they are 15" with a 5 x 4.5" bolt pattern. I don't know if it's an M-body or an R-body, and the salvage yard is confirming they are 5 x 114.3mm and not 5 x 100mm.

Also hoping they have the 3 "nubs" for dog dish hub caps, if anyone happens to know . . .

thanks!

Here they are on my 66 300.

 

[CBODY67]

Here they are on my 66 300.

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Great looking 300! Great choiced of wheel covers, too! Looks like "it came that way".

 

[CBODY67]

Chrysler rwd car wheels all shared the 5x4.5" bolt circle, although some now convert it to metric measurement. Probably some of the Dodge pickups and D/P 4wd vehicles, too. Seems like a car club friend used some 15x8 Ramcharger wheels on the back of his '69 Super Bee, painted body color with hubcaps?

Second-gen Cordoba and Dodge Mirada alloy wheels work, too! Look good on the Slabs, too. Take the "5 + 5" spoke Cordoba wheels (about 1981 or so), machine out the smaller spokes, and you have an "alloy Magnum 500"-look wheel.

Enjoy!
CBODY67

 

[amazinblue82]

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The 15x7, 4.0 inch backspacing, 1980-1989 J-M-R (R's had a type you rarely come across today - last photo) aluminum alloys have found easy usages on most any 5x4.5 Mopar.

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I have done this look below on 15x7, 5x4.5 M-body cop steelies .. right below are 1978 Magnum XE caps. The road wheel caps would bolt up fine too.

the very bottom set is the 15x7, 5x4.5, J-M-R stock, NON-police steel wheel. Many, if not all, '80-'89 civi steelies also have "ears" for poverty caps as well (check b/4 buying).

 

[CBODY67]

IF you want 15x7 "cop car" wheels, but without the hub cap nubs, think "1979 Magnum GT" wheels. Take a center cap and possibly trim rings. Same with the 15x8 "Kit Car" wheels, except the Magnum GT wheels have a special heavy metalflake coating over a black primer.

When I bought the new Magnum GT wheels for my '80 Newport, the set of 4, center caps, trim rings, and retainer screws for the center caps was $200.00 total over the front counter at an area Dodge parts department. So I ended up with a total of three sets.

In many respects, the '79-'81 R-cars were better than they should have been. A few changes in equipment and sales orientations would have helped a bunch, but it seemed that Chrysler and others were in a "Super Malaise" orientation. With their more-pastel colors and velours, while also modulating which corporate building lights got turned on.

CBODY67

 

[Ripinator]

Great looking 300! Great choiced of wheel covers, too! Looks like "it came that way".

Thanks. That's what I was going for.

 

[Snotty]

They should be 15x7s, so they will fit fine

 

[King Hooter]

THIS! This is what I'd love to do on my Imperial.

 

[darth_linux]

Thanks everyone. I thought I saw on one of the "wheel identifier" sites that some Fifth Avenues came with 5 x 4" bolt patterns, so I was confused. From what I'm reading here, they are all 5 x 4.5", with the 3 nubs for dog dishes, and are 15" x 7". Hoping to pick them up by Monday.

 

[Just Carbs]

The little 1991 or so front wheel drive New Yorker Fifth Ave car has the 5x4 bolt wheels. Good cars, if you had the extended wheelbase with the 3.8 motor.

 

[cbarge]

Frankie has the M body 15x7 with 22570R15 tires and factree wheel covers.
Yes they do have " nubs" for dog dish poverty hubcaps! Lol
( pic from 2022 Cbody inly show, Volo Illinois)