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COPOZ/28

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Help With Spare Wheel Code
« on: March 06, 2020, 10:53:41 PM »
The spare wheel in my 05E  '69 Z, inside a never-been-on-the-ground Sport Car 200 tire (which doesn't really prove much), has rim stamping code that is clearly "K-1-8 7 24 FW", although the "W" looks much like an upside down "M".   From older posts, I gather the "FW" code wheel is a '71 and later Chevelle & Monte Carlo wheel.  If this is true, how do we explain a July 24, 1968 date with an "FW" code?  Having spent 30+ years working for that other "C" car company and crawling all through their many assembly plants, I know first hand that almost anything is possible with parts being flown/trucked all over the country in emergency part shortage situations.   But it doesn't explain the 1968 date code on an FW wheel.  I'm confused!  The photos I have of the tire and wheel were too large to include in the post but I can attach them to an email if anyone would like to see them.  Thanks.
Chuck B.
Ice cream run in our '69 Z/28 on Woodward Ave. in Royal Oak.
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Re: Help With Spare Wheel Code
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2020, 11:07:15 PM »
1978.
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Re: Help With Spare Wheel Code
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2020, 01:47:40 AM »
Thanks -- didn't realize the 15x7 Rallye Wheel lasted into the late '70's.  So, the 1st owner must have remounted the original Sports Car 200 spare tire onto a late '78 wheel.  Wish I could ask him how that came to be but the gentleman passed away a few years ago.
Chuck B.
Ice cream run in our '69 Z/28 on Woodward Ave. in Royal Oak.
Daytona Yellow, NOR 05E, X33, M22, 4.88/9511CB.

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Re: Help With Spare Wheel Code
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2020, 03:32:58 AM »
Last year as a production option was 1977-my Malibu had them. GM and Kelsey serviced them well into the '80s; we were buying 14 x 7 and 15 x 8 rally wheels by the pallet load. No one knew or cared about codes at that time.
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Re: Help With Spare Wheel Code
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2020, 02:18:24 PM »
YJ was a common wheel also.  Seen many with a barcode on the inner hoop.