Keystoners
 

I found a nice older set of Keystone Wheels at a swap meet over the winter. Got them for a great price and recently polished them up. I mounted a set of cheap radials and off I go... I have more fun with this 71 Ventura. Just a 307 2 barrel single exhaust 100 percent original car. Car runs fantastic. You don't see Keystones too much. Thought it was a little different. The hood is deliberately popped up. Just connected the battery and backed it out of the garage for the picture. I'm a tire and wheel guy. I have more sets of them than I know what to do with. My Wife thinks I'm nuts.... I just like changing them around it changes the appearance of the car so much. Then it's funny to mess with people at the local cruise inns who say they saw a car "just like this last week but it had Pontiac Rally Wheels on it". LOL

Rich

I hear ya on “wheels set the tone”... steel wheels and dog dish caps sure changed the appearance of mine, IMHO.

The second car I owned was a 73 Ventura. Used to be popular up here in the '70s and '80s. You don't see many of them anymore as most were driven into the ground.

My 71 TA back in the day........

https://i.imgur.com/lBfKcAD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Gcz8FnF.jpg

Had to look for this one so I could scan it. A 69 convert that I had back in the late 80s to early 90s. My brother sitting inside was freezing his but off as I had pulled it out in May and it snowed that day. These were the only set of Keystones I ever had.

https://i.ibb.co/VLZK4mt/Keystones.jpg

First car
 

I had Keystones on my first car, a 67 Camaro. 15x4 skinnies in front and 15x8 reverse in the rear. Pretty wheels!

Richard

Looks great Rich. Always liked the Keystones.

Great looking wheels- I've always liked them, but never owned a set.
Are the new ones close to originals or easy to tell apart?
Just curious if anybody has eyeballed them side by side.

Good looking Ventura. I’m currently on the hunt (passively) for a set of Kustomags 14x6 to replicate this image of the car in its youth. And no I’m not in the photo. Those are my brother and sister in the fall of 68. Sister was born in June of 68

I think this is #135045, wearing the type of Keystones it was campaigned with and found with a while back.

The biggest Key-stoners were Sox & Martin, IMO

----Betting they weren't paying anything for them!.....Bill S

Side note. Many people do not realize that there was a Kustomag and a Klassic. Both similar in overall design but the what the center section was attached to the hoop and kusto's were direct bolt vs unilug.

Just stumbled across this monster, Keystone-shod Cammer Maverick. Seemed appropriate for this thread:)

Love the Keystones.

Would really like to see more pics of that Red Ventura. That is a looker for sure.

My Camaro when I first got it. These Keystones and TAs were sold to pay for my first set of Craftsman tools so I could go to work at the local Ford dealer. The other one is the '67 SS396 Chevelle that I traded for the Camaro.

Guess I'm odd man out. I've never cared for the flat spoke of the Keystones and always had Cragars back in my youth...:dunno:

Now I have American Racing Torque Thrusts on my '38.

Funny how the whole eye of the beholder works. I was the opposite. Hated Cragars and loved Keystones... Had a set on my first car.

I wonder if it didn't have something to do with marketing too. I don't recall seeing Keystones available in the Mpls/St Paul area much until the mid seventies and by then most of the cars around here had Cragars ?? Kinda like the first car or other "first" events. We tend to stick with what we first found attractive.

Could be regional too.
Growing up around here,nearly every Plymouth Dodge & Mopar had Keystones,which is what I liken them too immediately.

Most of the MOPARS that I saw in our area growing up seemed to be wearing the ET slots or something similar. Seemed like Cragar SS was the wheel of choice for most of the Chevy crew. My brother put a set on the silver 66 Impala that he inherited after it served as the family grocery getter for years. Goodbye 283 powerglide, hello 396 4-speed. :D


I especially like the look of the Keystones with a set of redlines like I have seen on a few cars on this thread. I like them because you don't see many of them.