I purchased my wheels from Boyd Coddington directly in 2007. They had an agreement with Marino at Pantera East that they would only build the wheels in certain sized for Pantera East ONLY. I went to Marino and asked can I get them in 17 x 8 and 18 x 10s (just the sizes I preferred). Marino said he would not build those for me, yet Boyd, who made Marinos wheels, said he could build them in the sizes I wanted. Boyd said I'll make them for you if Marino says OK. Marino said OK.
IMO the centers Marino had made were the best, most realistic reproduction/clone wheel out there with the centers being correct and aligned to the pentagon and the rest of the slots.
Below is what I got:
Below on the left is the Pantera East design. On the right is the design that I believe PI and the Byars Brothers used back then and possibly today? The Pantera East is the design (left) that matches the original two slot wheels. On the right wheel the center pentagon is rotated 10% or about 36 degrees to change the design as to not conflict with the Pantera East design rights. An entire set of the wheels on the right were made for me by mistake, so Coddington remade the entire set with the center on the left.
BELOW- Coddington really did a great job on the machine work…the center is machined from billet. Note the two dimensional surface starting at the top of the first slot, It drops down.
Also, the ridge at the bottom of the slot is on our OE wheels, and obviously on the Coddington wheels I got.
After getting my wheels built another Pantera owner wanted the same wheels that I had made, I spoke with Boyd and he said they had a new forging process that allowed him to make any wheel hoop size out of a forged hoop ( 17" 18" 20" and widths 8", 9", 10", 11") etc.
Maybe you can get a set made by http://boydcoddingtonwheels.com/. I have to believe they still have the ability to make that wheel. Not sure if his son's took over the company? I dealt with one of his sons during the manufacturing process for my wheels. They were very familiar with the Pantera East agreements.
