FIA Rims and Tire sizes, Resurrected Topic

[CompClassics]

Most of the wheel repop manufacturers sizes are 7.5” and 9.5”. The only manufacturer and he stopped manufacturing the wheels over a decade ago was Phil Schmidt.
Most repop Cobra manufacturers were focused on providing cars that could fit much larger (wider) tires on their cars as their clients wanted the big tire look or they planned to track the cars. Kirkhams even went so far as to alter their 289 Cobra frame jigs from the original type structure to one that accept the larger wheel/tire combination supposedly at the request of Shelby on the chassis they ordered for their aluminum body Continuation Series Cobras. I don’t know if Kirkhams ever changed their chassis jigs after that? The EARLY 7000 Series Continuation Series aluminum Cobras had a chassis that represented the original 1960s 289 Cobras.

Now that Superformance has taken over the manufacturing of the 7000 Series FIA Cobras I do not know what wheel sizes they provide with their cars, I would assume that it is still the 7.5” and 9.5” wheel as most of the cars that I have seen run wider tires than what a 6.5” wheel would take? Maybe one of the Superformance owners could chime in?