Jellybeans

Whether you call them jellies or dish mags or slotted mags, tridents or kidney bean rims, they are the quintessental 1970s alloy wheel. Datsun 1200 uses 4-lug on 4-1/2" pitch circle (PCD), metric equivalent is 4.113mm PCD.

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Overview

The classic slotted mags

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Slotted Mag ID Guide

Jellybean Rim ID Guide

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Cast IDs

Many rims have the brand, the size, or other information cast into the wheel, most often on the back side.

Center Caps

• 3-screw

• 4-screw

• 5-screw

• Captive (slips into the center hole from behind, before wheel is fitted)

• Push-in (Pushes into the center hole)

Datsun B310 center caps fit many wheels

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Slot Types

• Rounded

• Squared off

• Trapezoidal

• 4-slot (often called "dish mags")

• 5-slot (most common)

• 6-slot

4-slot

Rare 4-slot design

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5-slot

Datsun 1200 SSS 12x4 Ward Wheels

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5-slot 12x4

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Cheviot Triden vs 1200 SSS comparo

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12x5 offset -2 (5.75" overall rim width) with steel washers

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flat-disc 5-slot from South Africa

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6-slot

6-window slot mags

• Performance wheels#Spitfire

• Speedy

• American Dragmaster (rounded sloping shoulder, or stepped shoulder)

• International Dragmaster

• Astro Supreme

• Italia Carrera (squarish slots)

• Universal Wheel

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#Speedy

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Italia Carrera 114.3 PCD, 13x5.5, 2-5/8 backspace

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8-slot

• Cragar Mach 8

Trapezoidal slot

Triangular-like slots

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13x7.5 - rounded shoulders

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13x5.5 - squared shoulders

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Valve Stem

* Valve stem in the slot * Valve stem in the disc * Valve stem in the barrel

Valve stem in the disc face

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Shoulder

Rare is rounded flange shoulders

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Common is squared flange shoulders

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Hub Area

• Flat

• Recessed

• Raised

Recessed hub

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Raised hub (slightly raised in this case)

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Brands

Peformance

See Main Article: Performance_wheels#Spitfire

6-slot Spitfires, listed by Performance up to 2007

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Triden

Popularly called Trident-style, Triden was the name of a wheel made by CSA/Mullins.

See Main Article: Cheviot#Triden

• Mullins Delta Triden

• Mullins CSA "Delta"-brand Vectron

• Mullins CSA "Cheviot"-brand Triden

Modified 5-slot jellies. Sometimes called "tridents", they come with silver or black centers:

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• Aunger

• Wildcat

• Ward 

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