posted by
someone claiming to be chris
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Wed Jan 21 14:30 CST 2004 [ RELATED]
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anyone know where i can get a set of these rims? what about the virgos? i'd like them to be relatively close to NJ to avoid shipping costs.
thanks!!!
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posted by
someone claiming to be Rhys
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Wed Jan 21 17:19 CST 2004 [ RELATED]
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I had a set of those wheels on my 164. They are 14 inch, and a bit narrow. They were sold by Volvo dealers as an installed option for 160 and 140 cars. Of course they fit 240 as well. I may be mistaken, but they are a bit different from the 262 coupe wheel I think. They look great on the vintage 140's.
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posted by
someone claiming to be Ken C
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Thu Jan 22 01:24 CST 2004 [ RELATED]
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re: "...I had a set of those wheels on my 164. They are 14 inch, and a bit narrow...."
I think you made a typo, right? When did the 164 take 14" wheels (I had a '73, and now I have a '75, and I'm pretty sure that earlier models also specified 15" wheels as well)? Can't speak about the 14x series (no personal experience) but the regular 2xx series took 14" wheels, and maybe the 26x models as well.
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posted by
someone claiming to be Rhys
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Thu Jan 22 13:34 CST 2004 [ RELATED]
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Ken the 164 came with 15 inch steel wheels as you know, but I was not keen to install skinny 165 tires on them. I couldn't find 185/70-15 either. Instead, I found a good set of those 14 wheels in the photo, refinished them and installed a set of 195/70-14 tires. That transformed the handling of the car. I actually used it to compete in solo events. Fooled a lot of people with that four speed OD 164E!
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Those show up on ebay from time to time. I know a guy who just sold a set for $100...I almost bought them. They're very light for a 14" OEM Volvo wheel.
Those came on the 262C, around '78-'80. Maybe on some other 260 models. Those are not GT wheels. I'd call them rare, but not particularly desirable.
Virgos came on the '80 GT and '81-'85 GLT/Turbo. Very easy to find on ebay or in a good junkyard.
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Between 245s, I ran across a set of those at the local Pick-N-Pull. $50 and they could have been mine, and for whatever reason I didn't bite. Now I wish I had them. The car was crushed with the wheels still on it.
Stranger than the wheels was the car they were on. It was a 242, not a GT, but with a similar foglight grille. The grille was black, not silver. It also had a tach, upper strut braces, and had evidently had a front spoiler. It looked like somebody went through the Volvo accessory catalog when the car was new.
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1991 245, 61k miles, looking for a 5 speed 92-93 245 cheap.
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It may have been a GT. I pulled a headlight & grille combo from a '78 242GT before it was crushed at my local yard. The grille was not the original stock version, it was black with no cutouts for the foglights. The headlight besels were originally silver (OEM GT), but had been painted black to match the new black grille.
Regarding the origin of the wheels pictured above, I believe they were stock on the early years of the 265, early 262c, and possibly fitted for one year on the '78 242GT. "Fixed Login Guy" would know for sure...
God bless,
Fitz Fitzgerald.
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'87 Blue 245, NA 231K
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I thought about it, but the car was blue and didn't have the GT interior. Volvo offered a foglight grille through the accessory catalog that wasn't quite the same as the GT.
They crushed that car quicker than I expected they would, so I mmissed out on most of the parts. I have the foglight switch around here somewhere, but I left the grille because the foglight reflectors had turned black. I didn't pick up the wheels the first day I looked at the car because they needed refinishing. Still, that's my favorite factory 200 series wheel if it's on the right car.
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1991 245, 61k miles, looking for a 5 speed 92-93 245 cheap.
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Those are the GT rims, right? I think the only place you are going to find them (or Virgos) is in a junkyard, eBay, a swap meet, or some similar venue (e.g., the classifieds on this very site). The Virgos are the newer of the two models, and the newest cars to have them are approaching 20 years old.
Good luck,
Keith
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1983 245 Turbo, 165K miles; 1987 244 DL, 272K miles; 1980 244 DL (RIP); 1966 Ford Bronco- straight six, three-on-the-tree, NO frills
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I think the rims pictured are from early Bertone 262.
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Thanks for the correction.
Keith
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1983 245 Turbo, 165K miles; 1987 244 DL, 272K miles; 1980 244 DL (RIP); 1966 Ford Bronco- straight six, three-on-the-tree, NO frills
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