[Alvin]

[68ragtop]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Alvin, I wonder if this car has 1979 or newer wheels on it with the round lip? The way the wheels are painted reminds me of 1987.

One of my best friends had a 78 Y88/WS6 & I had a 1982 Recaro trans am that I installed some 1979+ WS6 wheels on. My friend with the Y88 was buying new tires & wanted to trade wheels with me. He liked the look of the machined surface wheels better & I thought the solid gold would look better on my black 1982, so we swapped in my mothers driveway. I then sanded down the 1" lip & left the rest solid & painted the center caps black.

We both sold the cars the following year & moved on in life. Some of you may remember that I later found that same Y88 car & am very fortunate to own it today. When I bought it, still had the same "wrong" wheels on it & I had to go though the trouble of finding the correct ones, which I eventually did.

We honestly never new how "special" that car was back then. We had no internet, no way of knowing Y88, W72, or even WS6 for that matter. we thought it was just a wheel option that came on the car. We thought the car was a "golden anniversary edition" because of all the gold accents.

Good times back then.

Funny how that wheel swap came back to haunt me many years later....

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by 68ragtop

1. Alvin, I wonder if this car has 1979 or newer wheels on it with the round lip? The way the wheels are painted reminds me of 1987.

One of my best friends had a 78 Y88/WS6 & I had a 1982 Recaro trans am that I installed some 1979+ WS6 wheels on. My friend with the Y88 was buying new tires & wanted to trade wheels with me. He liked the look of the machined surface wheels better & I thought the solid gold would look better on my black 1982, so we swapped in my mothers driveway. I then sanded down the 1" lip & left the rest solid & painted the center caps black.

We both sold the cars the following year & moved on in life. Some of you may remember that I later found that same Y88 car & am very fortunate to own it today. When I bought it, still had the same "wrong" wheels on it & I had to go though the trouble of finding the correct ones, which I eventually did.

We honestly never new how "special" that car was back then. We had no internet, no way of knowing Y88, W72, or even WS6 for that matter. we thought it was just a wheel option that came on the car. We thought the car was a "golden anniversary edition" because of all the gold accents.

Good times back then.

2. Funny how that wheel swap came back to haunt me many years later....

1. GR8 story. I CRS & Don't remember off of the top of my head...used to know variants of the various 8 x 15 Snowflakes spoke width, paint, et. al...don't claim to be an expert, nor do play I one "one the TV" as there are many self proclaimed Ex-Spurts here on P-YAMES forum and the "InterWeb" also many legit friendly folks who can chime in w details, and updated info beyond "FIREBIRD" & "The Fabulous Firebird" among various other publications.

2. Don't be so hard on yourself - at least it's just simple wheel changeout & you didn't go full Boogety w the hip trend back then like this (below) which you're attempting to erase and resurrect now!