I've never seen these wheels you speak of...

The proportions wouldn't be different.. the size would be different... the
proportions would be the same...

Look what this guy sent me:

Mark,

I have one alternative you might want to consider. I have designed some
adaptors to allow Porsche wheels to be mounted on Vanagons. There is a very
wide variety of Porsche wheels available, so you can get just about any look
you want. Porsche wheels are also plentiful on eBay and in other places.

My adaptors are CNC machined from T6061 billet. The studs are 10.9 grade.
Quality, materials, precision and craftsmanship are all top notch. I have
attached a couple of pictures for you to see.

Let me know if you are interested in getting a set of adaptors. I have some
sitting at my feet right now.

Bruce

>From: Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Original Carat Alloys in 15 inch size
>Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:52:10 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/18/03 4:08:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< How much would that cost?? How long would it take to sale 1000??? >>
>
>It would be cheaper to buy the Mercedes AMG Monoblock 15's which look very
>similar to the Carat 1 wheels.
>
>I would think that there are enough wheels available stock for the Vanagons
>that it would be difficult to absorb 1,000 units even with some going to
>the
>late model loaf vans. You could try to sell them to the Mercedes crowd but
>few would 15" wheels. IMHO the market is too saturated now for this kind of
>endeavor to be economically feasible.
>
><< Wouldn't you need to worry about getting permission??? >>
>
>Why would he need permission if the design is essentially different by
>simply
>the virtue of it's size? The proportions would be different.
>
>BenT Wheel

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