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Blunder
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I have a couple of wide steel wheels with what looks to be 3 rivets! Just thought they were kinda odd!!!

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Real early ones (1961) had thinner centres, they BROKE!!
All Mini wheels were rivetted up until around 1963-1964.
Tyres back then all had tubes in.
One reason the manufacturer went to spot welding instead of rivets is that tubeless tyres were invented. :lol:

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These are pretty wide too........ Any reason!?!

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to fit wider tyres?
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Rare now :?:

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to fit wider tyres?


Cheers for your useful insight Matt!! lol

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Are they?!?!?

Mmmmmm...... Maybe Ebay shall decide! lol

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I think a better photo would be an idea so that we can see what we are supposed to be looking at.
I assume that the three rivets are to hold the hubcap on. Is this correct?
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Real early ones (1961) had thinner centres, they BROKE!!
All Mini wheels were rivetted up until around 1963-1964.


the one in the photo has rivets for the hubcap lugs - photo is too blurry to see if it has rivets from the centre to the rim

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I think, (and i may be wrong) the centres with the 3 "rivits" are from a Austin A30, not a mini.

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a friend of mine picked up a A30 and it has very similar rms with the rivets.
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The very early model minis had rivets holding the rim to the center,,, that`s one set of rivets out of the way

the other type of rivet is like the ones in the picture, they`re rivets to hold the hub cap on

those rims would have (originally) had both rivets holding the rim to the center & the rivets to hold the hub cap on

But!!!---> I have no idea of the original type hub cap that suits them, but they are definately genuine mini, we have a couple of them here

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I have some as well and they are also super wide (came from a speedway mini) ,no idea what they started as though .

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