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Just saw this on Craigslist...arent these Indy Pace Car wheels? by Kitskaboodle
Started on: 10-30-2009 09:16 PM
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Hmmm, interesting if these are original Indy Pace Car wheels?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org.../cto/1442348521.html
Hope you can find it through this link.

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Certainly appear to be.

Made by Centerline.

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Heehee - another "Rare" Fiero. Really Rare 84 too!. The wheels look like they are the original Indy style - if so, they Are Rare!
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Buy it for the wheels! Where are you going to find another set?
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Report this Post10-30-2009 10:34 PM Click Here to See the Profile for johnyrottinSend a Private Message to johnyrottinDirect Link to This Post
They might be the Dodge daytona wheels that are close. I don't know how to differentiate them. Would be interesting to call the person and find out!!!
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i am pretty sure they are dodge daytona rims. they are still very hard to find.
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Those are the Centerline wheels, there the same set I have in my garage for my Indy.

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The Indy track cars had steel covers over these Centerline wheels.



*Edited because I learned something new.

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Looks like Centerlines. I would buy it just for the wheels and throw on a old set and sell the car again!

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Originally posted by winger1955:

i am pretty sure they are dodge daytona rims. they are still very hard to find.


I'd say Dodge Daytona also, not too hard too find here's some on this site.

http://www.capitalwheels.co...tid=1061&cat=&page=1

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They are not Dodge Daytona rims... They are Centerlines.



Much more aggressive than the Daytona wheels. The Daytona wheels are decent if someone is going for the 'look' of the Indy track car but the Centerlines are much wider and a better fit for the Fiero.

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Had to reinstall PIP this was as good a test as any.
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There's posted info on the Indy wheels,they are centerline wheels and the disks where machined by hand and bolted from the backside to these rims.

Here's the link about the Indy wheel's
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...090219-1-068144.html

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That's new information to me. It used to be thought that they were a standard Firebird wheel under those covers. I guess the secret is out now. Thanks for letting me know.


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Songman..I'm sorry for the way i worded my post and yes it does single just you out. again sorry.
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No worries. I changed mine too. I used to have a set of those Centerline wheels. Still one of the better looking wheels on a Fiero in my opinion. It is a shame they covered them up on the Indy.
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Ok after seeing the two different rims and the car from CL they do look like the Centerline wheels, thanks for the pics Songman and Jake.
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Another RARE Fiero. Right --- GM sold more 84's and any other year.

ALL these Fiero Sellers think their car is "rare" just because they don't see that many on the road. I never saw that many when they were new. Does that mean they were already "rare" as soon as they were sold???

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There not 16" like the Pace car. Rick B

http://fieropacecar.shutterfly.com/morepictures/28

Edited to add links to my photos at www.FieroPaceCar.com

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Just to be picky, he also said it has fiberglass body.....
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Working a deal with him now on them. They are the centerlines but have a ding in one of the edges. Going to see if I can get that sorted out. Then they go on my new pacecar!

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Originally posted by johnyrottin:

Working a deal with him now on them. They are the centerlines but have a ding in one of the edges. Going to see if I can get that sorted out. Then they go on my new pacecar!



If it turns out that you don't take them, let me know, I'm interested. The Craig's Listing has been deleted. So I can't get any contact information. I love these Centerline Wheels. I've not got four sets.

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So that's what happened to the set I had!

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Originally posted by johnyrottin:

Working a deal with him now on them. They are the centerlines but have a ding in one of the edges. Going to see if I can get that sorted out. Then they go on my new pacecar!



Good luck with that. I already made an offer to him on Thursday that Paul accepted. I got the email accepting it Saturday morning around noon - "Deal... I'll go $xxx for the rims".

In less than 24 hours, he backed out. Now he has a "partner" who wants to put the wheels on eBay. They're hoping for $1400 just for the wheels - that's why the Craiglist ad disappeared.

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Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: 1984 Pontiac Fiero - $1350 (scotts valley)

The guy who I'm partners on the car with wants to put them on eBay. I don't really care for eBay myself and would rather sell them on Craig's but he's a car guy and says he's seen a set sell for $1400.

I'll keep you posted as we figure out what's going to happen with the car and rims.

Thank you,
Paul

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I don't think he's seen a set sell for $1400. I think just all the 'rare' talk made them think they can get more. It is possible that someone gave $1400 for a set but they got ripped if they did... in my opinion, of course.

With that being said, I wouldn't deal with anyone who had made a deal to sell something to someone and then back out because they got a better offer or felt like they could. That is a person that can't be trusted. Some of you may remember the yellow T-top Formula from a few years back. The dealer made a deal with me then someone else offered more so he asked me if I would like to up my price. He wanted a bidding war on a car he had already agreed to sell me. He didn't get it and I let the other person buy the car. Shortly after, the buyer contacted me to see if I wanted the car at the original price I had offered because the car was not in the shape it was represented to be. Obviously, I passed.

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What people have paid $1400 for are the 16" by 10" and 8" wide for the wide bodies.. Rick B
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Originally posted by Songman:

I don't think he's seen a set sell for $1400. I think just all the 'rare' talk made them think they can get more.



"Deal... I'll go $xxx for the rims" sounds like an acceptance of my offer to me. But...

...with the other emails they received showing interest in the wheels, they decided to do some research (should have done that in the first place) and found that the wheels were the only thing worth anything on the car - possibly worth more than the car itself. So they decided to "cancel' the agreement they made with me for the wheels.

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Looks like they made it to ebay, only $1399.00!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymot...fPartsQ5fAccessories

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He's answered one of your questions... A bit rude, though.
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Hello Everyone, I have decided to list the wheels at "NO RESERVE" to give everyone a fair chance to win the auction. Please go ahead and submit your best offer. Best of luck to all. Kind Regards

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymot...em&item=250528716155
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The bad part about 16" rims is a very limited choice of tires.

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Originally posted by ccfiero350:

The bad part about 16" rims is a very limited choice of tires.



Yup. That seems to be true. Couldn't find any Raised-White-Letter ones either. I like the look of RWL.

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Originally posted by IndyPaceCarWheels:

Hello Everyone, I have decided to list the wheels at "NO RESERVE" to give everyone a fair chance to win the auction. Please go ahead and submit your best offer. Best of luck to all. Kind Regards

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymot...em&item=250528716155





Something odd with the rear tire - looks like it broke loose on the wheel. Maybe the damaged wheel won't hold air??

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Hmmm... I didn't post the 1st question. He's confusing me for someone else. I emailed pointing this out and asked they remove their "answer" that quotes our correspondence - since it's not me that they are answering. His email sequence of events is somewhat out of order - probably confused some of it with johnyrottin whom he was also dealing with.

Terms:

... cash in person or by US Green Postal $ Order. If you need to overnight the money to get it here on time please do so. Please do not send any form of payment other than what is specified above. Once funds clear the wheels will be released to the buyer. All payments must be verified and clear the bank. Remember, you are entering into a legally binding contract.

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Deal... I'll go $500 for the rims... you must bring "rollers" that we can put back onto the car so it's not sitting on the ground when you leave.

Thank you,
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Yes, twas I that he agreed to at 500 plus a set of rollers. Then he increased the deal to 750. I did find out that the rims are not perfectly fixable but still more than useable and would be 225 per rim to refinish back to as new as possible (i.e. the digs along the edge. This shouldn't affect the performance of the rim though, just the asthetics). I am up against a budget with the storm tha blew through FL causing me some unplanned damage so 750 plus 900 refinishing for wheels when the Daytona rims look as bad a s s as they do doesn't quite make sense for me. Those rims should be repaired and placed on an extremely low mileage Pace Car (like the one with 193 miles or so!)
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Originally posted by johnyrottin:

Yes, twas I that he agreed to at 500 plus a set of rollers. Then he increased the deal to 750. I did find out that the rims are not perfectly fixable but still more than useable and would be 225 per rim to refinish back to as new as possible (i.e. the digs along the edge. This shouldn't affect the performance of the rim though, just the asthetics). I am up against a budget with the storm tha blew through FL causing me some unplanned damage so 750 plus 900 refinishing for wheels when the Daytona rims look as bad a s s as they do doesn't quite make sense for me. Those rims should be repaired and placed on an extremely low mileage Pace Car (like the one with 193 miles or so!)



Look at pictures above. The rear tire is flat and the tire bead is off the rim. Maybe the damaged wheel won't hold air?

As you can see in the above email I posted earlier, I got an email from Paul accepting my offer too. Seems he was playing us against each other, though I never got a counter-offer to up the price to $750. They started getting greedy after that.


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Howard
To: fierosound1@shaw.ca
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: 1984 Pontiac Fiero - $1350 (scotts valley)


Hi Tony,

Sorry you're so upset...

... another gentleman offered to purchase and yet a 3rd person offered to buy them. ... my partner who deals with eBay researched the rims and realized that only 2000 sets were made. He then found a set which sold for $1400... am I supposed to sell them to you and two other gentleman for $500 ... ???

Kind regards...

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I would say yes he was supposed to sell them for 500 because he agreed to sell them for 500. Then he changed it to 750...
You don't go back and say that the Mustang someone sold you was a rare factory blah blah blah that was worth 200k after you agreed a price of 25k. Verbal and oral contracts are upholdable in court. I also have an email trail showing the convo's.
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I just noticed he pulled the ebay listing for the wheels tonight...LOL

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Wow, I wonder what the intentions of the seller were?? I wonder where the information came from that 2000 sets were made. There were more Q style Centerlines made than that.

One thing that you guys need to keep in mind when thinking about buying the Q style wheels is that Centerline made several widths and offsets in the 16 inch "Q" wheels. The Centerline catalog listed the following sizes specifically for the 84-87 Fiero.

The fronts are 16 x 7 with a 38mm offset and 5-1/2" backspacing.
The rears are 16 X 8 with a 35mm offset and 5-7/8" backspacing.

These wheel sizes were intended to match the Fiero fender line with 2" Belltech drop spindles and a 1" cut in the rear coils. The Herb Adams catalog explains the performance reasons for this set up in conjunction with his swaybars that he developed under the blessing of Pontiac Motorsports. The rights to the Herb Adams bars were later sold to ADDco.

This picture shows the original "X" style wheel as it was proposed by Pontiac to use on the Pace Car Replica. The disks were going to be offered through the dealer in the Super Duty catalog. Two things happened: 1) Engineering abandoned the wheels after frequent tire pressure drops occured in testing due to the center bead design of the "X" style wheels. Centerline redesigned the center bead where the three pieces are rivited together and offered them to the public as the "Q" style. 2) The bean counters. The wheels would have added in neighborhood of $800 to the cost of a Indy Fiero Replica.



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