Vintage wheel id help needed

[Tonefiend]

I have Keystone Klassics or knock offs on my '70.  The center caps have a "WS" logo.  Anyone know what that is all about?  I have never see that logo.

View the picture and then click on "original" to see the logo on the center cap.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/72593510@N00/3949744726/sizes/l/

[Chryco Psycho]

definatly a Keystone wheel , must have a custom center cap

[Super Blue 72]

   I agree with Chryco.  That is a Keystone Klassic style rim.  As far as I know, Keystone was the only one to make that style.  I have a set as well. 

How old are those rims???  From the 70's?  80's?   

The only other company that I am aware that makes them is Cragar now as I think they bought over Keystone or the design.  I have seen that rim advertised currently under Cragar.  It even has a Cragar center cap but it is a different style cap.  The cap you have looks like the Keystone style cap but a different center design.  I wonder if it can be peeled off to see what's underneath, but don't do it!!!


Actually, I do remember on craigslist a set of Keystone Klassic style rims that had a different centercap/company logo....but I do not believe they were "WS"....
Back in the 60's and 70's, I don't know if there were knock off style rims, for instance other companies had styles similar to the Cragar S/S or Torq Thrust but were marketed under other names like Western, ET, etc...

[brads70]

Western wheel? I've run into that name before?

[Tonefiend]

Western wheel? I've run into that name before?

Thats what I was thinking too.  I have heard the name before.   The rims I think are from the 70s. Thats when the rest of the car was modded.   I will have to look at the backs for any tell tale casting marks or anything like that.  The caps are a curiosity to me I am almost 100% positive the rims are Keystone.

Thanks guys

[Super Blue 72]

Western wheel? I've run into that name before?

I was thinking Western as well but what about the "S"?     Style?  Who knows, maybe there was a variation of the Western name in the 70's?  Western was a popular brand in the 70's so who knows.  They made some nice turbine style aluminum rims.

[HP2]

They don't look like original caps. You can see a lip around them where they mate to the wheel. They should be flush. The back or inside of the wheel may hold extra info about the wheel itself, but caps are too easily lost, swapped, and replaced to be a definitive indentifier.