Really old school wheels..

[sumyungguy]

My boss bought a 318is from the auction to resell (really clean silver one with only 131k) and it had these wheels on it, talked him into trading my basketweaves for them. I dont know what make or model but I do know that they are 3 piece, center bore and offset seem to be e30 specific, look to be 7.5" wide cause that 215/50/15 fits pretty good, and the year stamp is 1987. They have been poorly refinished, the center cap is painted over (I left them off cause their really big) and have no size or offset stamps anywhere visible. Im going to take them back off and thoroughly clean them when I get back from vacation.

Anyone know what they are?? We where thinking old SSR's but I dont know..

Some quick snap shots I took, Ill do a proper shoot in a little while. I only did a quick run over with the alum. polish, after I spend some time on them they'll have some bling'n lips. I also plan on refinishing the centers in either black or silver.






Dirty (not rust) but you can see the 3 pieces

[Jordan325iC]

Don't know, but those are fucking hot.

[Ray Smoodiver]

Work E-wing?

[sumyungguy]

Work was around in 1987, and I think I found some siblings.. Ray you are the man..

That looks like a match on the center cap too..





Well after some research it looks like Ewing was like a category that had many different styles, similar to the Work Equip lineup

[e30xcel]

those are cool!

[2002maniac]

Hayashi fins. Thye made them either 15x7 or 15x8 yours look like 7's. Nice wheels! I love e21 offset wheels on an e30.

[Erick]

Dude sweet find!! I've been looking for a set of Volk/Work for a while now.

[M42Technik]

Very nice find, all these oldshool wheels showing up is awesome!

[Jon325i]

They kind of look like Hardy & Beck wheels.....BMW tuner back when the E21 was the shit.

Jon

[SchnellerVert]

They kind of look like Hardy & Beck wheels.....BMW tuner back when the E21 was the shit.

Jon

They were shit way back when, and pricey even back then. Nice find, nearly impossible to find parts for them.

Look at about 6 months ago there was an E28 featured in Roundel with all the Hardy&Beck stuff and there was also an E21 as well in that issue.

[sumyungguy]

Do you buys have any pictures of those wheels?

They look exactly like the Work Ewings, someone at some point painted them black and did a crappy job. Work also doesn't stamp their wheels with the specs, they put a sticker on the inside of the barrel. Ill look into H&B.

Edit: Naa the H&B's look a little different and the center cap is entirely different.

[Mystikal]

There's no way those are E21 offset. The rears are too far inside the fenders.

-Jay

[SchnellerVert]

Look at March's Roundel at the 3.0csl restoration, it has a complete Hardy&Beck make over as it was or is an Alpina car.

[backtrail69]

super cool rims with the caps off, not really digging the caps (on that other post).

[sumyungguy]

There's no way those are E21 offset. The rears are too far inside the fenders.

-Jay

Speaking of that I'm gonna get some spacers to kick them out, thinkin of 5mm in the font and 8mm or 10 mm in the back..