WANTED: Borrani Wire Wheels

[Alan Bunyan]

Does anyone have or know of available Borrani wires, I need 3No. 6 1/2" x 15" and 2No. 8 1/2" x 15". Please confirm location, condition and price. Thanks in anticipation of your help.

[Chris Melia]

Hi Alan

Try this link http://www.tawvehicle.com/borrani1.htm

Let me know how you get on

Chris
PS will you be at the Club AGM on the 9th

[Alan Bunyan]

Chris

Thanks for the help, I am pursuing with TAW, will advise result. Also interested if anyone has used rims for sale.

Won't be making AGM, prior commitments prevent.

Alan

[b] There is a company in England that distributes dunlop wire wheels, they also support
Borani. I think their name is Motorwheel. I contacted them about 6 years ago and
learned that new Boranis were still available, but that GT40 type hubs were not. The
wheels were about $4,500 each, if memory serves, and I think only one size was
available, 6 or 7 by 15". Hope this helps...

JG[b]

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[M.B]

Just a small note to you;
Dunlop wire wheels were used on the Ford Factory raced wire wheeled MkI´s....

[GT40Graham]

No, only Borranis were ever used.

[M.B]

I am pretty sure they did !
At some point..
But i was not included in the Ford racing programme at the time so...
Maybe, maybe not...
I do know for a fact that they used different types of Borrani´s.
Prototypes used different type of wheel´s than production ones...P1000 onwards..
Regards,

[GT40Graham]

You're right about the two different styles of Borrani. The early ones had a row of spokes that went to the outside of the rim.