WOW, makes me want to consider selling my 2 sets....? I got a repro set that look great.....but?
Apparently repro tenspokes are in more demand now since Branda who is the main seller of the tenspoke repro wheel is out.
Those are nice wheels. Fully machined on the reverse side theoretically to clear 68 calipers.
I only have two. They are on the front and they did not clear the stock calipers but definitely make the originals look crude by comparison.
I needed as much room as I could gain since I was fitting the 69 T/A "Big Ford" front disc brake set up.
I would pick at the word, optional, as you are applying it. I do remember 68s new with 10 spokes on them.
In the sense that "optional" means they were not on the option list from Ford or Shelby, yes, but I saw well over, just a few 68s new running them.
Gotham Ford literally was just down the street from me at the time and one of their storage facilities was on w 53 st right across the street from where NBC had moved the Tonight show to.
The door was always open and I could wander around at will but that was Kolb's territory and you could get the car anyway you wanted it.
Those hub caps would never be approved today as safe by the Fed's. They weren't even good UFO's, just lethal ones.
The guy I bought my '68 from was having difficulty with the car being vandalized when parked at work.
The drivers vent window was broken in to, the original driving lamps were stollen, and every hub cap had a missing lug nut where the nubnuts tried to steal the wheels and just didn't understand that the hub caps were not bolted on.