eyemon
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I want to pass along some information gathered while trying to locate 2 original type plain black steel rim for my
71 Dodge Monaco. Nothing earth shaking but possibly helpful to someone. My car came with painted steel 15
inch x 6 inch solid rims but the previous owner (I'm the 2nd) for some reason had replaced one rim with a 15 x 5 & 1/2 inch and the spare tire rim with a 15 x 6 & 1/2 inch, both of which weren't solid rims but had vent openings. Although the Monaco has front disc brakes it still came with solid rims all the way around with no openings. Getting to my point, I figured that there ought to be piles of the correct rims laying around in numerous junkyards, however I soon found out how wrong I was because although I was finally able to get my hands on 2 correct rims, I was given information by people in the business that those solid rims were only produced for less than 1 year in 1970 which
made them very rare, at least in the 15 x 6 inch width which explains why they are so darned hard to find and PRICEY! My parts manual shows that that painted 15 x 6 rim only could be had, depending on tire size, on some Polaras, Monacos, Imperials, Plymouths, and Chryslers, that were produced in 1970. I appears that there is no common "one 15 x 6 size fits all" among those listed models because they all have different part numbers. I realize that this post is only relevant to a narrow band of Mopar people but maybe some will find it useful.
71 Dodge Monaco. Nothing earth shaking but possibly helpful to someone. My car came with painted steel 15
inch x 6 inch solid rims but the previous owner (I'm the 2nd) for some reason had replaced one rim with a 15 x 5 & 1/2 inch and the spare tire rim with a 15 x 6 & 1/2 inch, both of which weren't solid rims but had vent openings. Although the Monaco has front disc brakes it still came with solid rims all the way around with no openings. Getting to my point, I figured that there ought to be piles of the correct rims laying around in numerous junkyards, however I soon found out how wrong I was because although I was finally able to get my hands on 2 correct rims, I was given information by people in the business that those solid rims were only produced for less than 1 year in 1970 which
made them very rare, at least in the 15 x 6 inch width which explains why they are so darned hard to find and PRICEY! My parts manual shows that that painted 15 x 6 rim only could be had, depending on tire size, on some Polaras, Monacos, Imperials, Plymouths, and Chryslers, that were produced in 1970. I appears that there is no common "one 15 x 6 size fits all" among those listed models because they all have different part numbers. I realize that this post is only relevant to a narrow band of Mopar people but maybe some will find it useful.