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Originally Posted by 64-3Deuces
Many of these parts vendors buy discontinued, obsolete, and excess inventory from closed dealers and liquidators and resell them. In the early 80s through the mid 90s a lot of the stuff I bought from Ames and Year One was OEM/GM, still in the original packaging with the vendor simply slapping their label and part number on it. I believe that is still the practice today as some of the catalog items are listed as GM.
I had an 87 TransAm/GTA and I have an 89 GTA; I purchased both cars new. The OEM wheels were made in Japan.
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Thanks for the reply 64-3Deuces! That is exactly what I believe happened with these wheels. There were no FRONT offset wheels available at the time, so I purchased these for my GN. I even talked with Classic Industries about the fronts and they stated there was interest and they would probably reproduce them or have OEM remanufacture. That photo in my second post is a used set of GTA's...appears to have a date code of 1989. My REARs appear to have a cast date of 2001.
Happy New Year!