Cragars have always been an issue. They are fragile on the old mounting machines and the center would break very often as a result in mounting a tire. In addition the chrome would peel off of the aluminum like aluminum foil AND more then one would have the rim separate from the center. Not only all of that but the brake dust would pit the heck out of them.
For whatever reason SA picked them, to be polite, they were not a good functional choice . Certainly they are not consistent in representing a car that was built for racing. I doubt any racer would use that wheel to go racing on.
It was almost as though Shelby was just going through the motions on the '65 GT350, didn't care almost to the point of sabotaging the project against Ford.
The exhausts alone were almost an embarrassment and many dealers complained it made it difficult to sell the car.
The "mags" like what were put on the "T/A" cars would have been a BETTER way to go. When it came down to Shelby, TOO MANY decisions were just made on a cost basis as a minimal way to satisfy the criteria that Ford had assigned to Shelby with this project?
I suspect this was just a way of protesting to Ford, that this is what you get for the money you gave me to build each car?