Thinking of selling my 74 Detomaso Pantera GT5 clone for a Jalpa but, don't care much for the stock wheels and feel it would look 100% better with aftermarket 17", 18" or 19" 5 spoke type wheels......anyone have pictures and possibly sizes/offsets of these larger wheels on a Jalpa? I appreciate the help. If easier, feel free to email the pictures to me at emery@hawaii.rr.com
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I have both a Jalpa and a Pantera. I have the 17 inch wheels on the rear of the Pantera. There is no way that those wheels will fit under a Jalpa. When I got my Jalpa it had the 345/35/15 tires off a Countach on the 11 inch Bravo wheels. It rubbed pretty bad. I put the correct 285/40/15 tires on it & now it doesn't rub. I think the circumference of these tires is 24.5 inches. You would have to work with that & around a 11 or less inch rim. The bolt pattern is 5 x 120 mm, the same as a BMW, and possibly an 80's GM (?), so you could play with some borrowed rims possibly.

I didn’t like the stock wheels when I fist got my car, but the wheels grow on me witch saved me a little bit of money hehe
well if you put aftermarket wheels please post some pictures!!!

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Christopher Mclellan

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I have 18" wheels all around on my Pantera.18x10 front and 18x13 rear! Sure makes it look good. Got the wheels from Kodiak Motorsports in Canada.
They fit good because I have the GT5 flares.
I've seen a few Jalpas with after market wheels but, not sure how to post them here. I especialy liked the white Jalpa from Canada that sold about 6 months ago that had 17" five spoke wheels. Now a days in magazines like Dupont Registry...quite a few Lambos are changing out the wheels for a more aggressive look. I feel as long as you keep the originals, all is good for resale.
Early Cat please email me and we can trade photos, etc. Thanks!
emery@hawaii.rr.com (Maui )

Here are a couple of solutions for wider wheels:

This is Herman Lewis’ black Jalpa with aftermarket wheels. I believe they are 17” and having seen them “live” they fit perfectly in the wheel-wells. I also think he rolled the lips in the front.

I actually like the original look and found a place that could widen aluminum wheels, so my rear wheels are now 10”. There probably is space for 12” wheels, but I couldn’t find 16” tires to fit that size. Picture 2 and 3 here shows my rear wheels.

Laust

This is the Jalpa I owned for almost 4 years. Just sold it. The rims make the car look fantastic.

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this is one of my favorite jalpas ever... i dont know the size of the rims but they are certainly deeeeeep!!!





also this one has some of the diablo style rims on them which im assuming are the compomotive replicas which only come in 17 inch...


i have a few pics on my home computer of some other ones that ill post when i get a chance!

BTW mclellan, you bought your jalpa from gt cars which is like half a mile from my house!!!!

shade

Cool, did you get to see my Jalpa at GT Cars?

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Oh I like the pictures of the 17" Diablo style rims, they look really nice on the Jalpa.

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Jalpa Jeff-that's what i'm taking about!!!!!!! You had one of the badest Jalpa's with those five spoke wheels! Can you share your sizes and off sets and tire sizes?

Shade one- I agree that red Jalpa is very sweet too!! Wheels do make the car!
Thanks for the post and keep them coming if you got em.