Woops, sorry Olds , your right, My bad.

Budd made the 55-57 T Bird bodys as well as the sheet metal parts for replacement.

Oldmics

Kelsey Hays also made the Thunderbird bodies.

Dan, the KH simply stands for Kelsey Hays, the Co. that made them.



Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

55 & 56 T Bird wheels are as you already know 15".
They are 5" from inside bead to outside bead.They used rivets to secure the inner wheel to the outer wheel.They also have 4 slots that appear between the center rim and the outer rim.
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Passenger car wheels and 6 passenger station wagon wheels are also 5" from bead to bead.
UNFORTUNATLY I dont know any other differences BUT can tell you that there are differences as the Bird wheels have a different part number than passenger car wheels.
Probably a differences in the wheel offset.

Oldmics

like the title says, does anyone know the differences between original 55/56 Ford Thunderbird wheels and 55/56 Ford Sedan Wheels? I picked up two 15" Tbird wheels (was told anyway - there is a "FoMoCo" and a "KH" stamped on them). The bolt pattern check out for sure.

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com