My hubcaps are smooth faced.

Wheels stamped 677100 are 4.5 J wheels used on a 164 up to chassis number 32399, and probably 140's as well though I haven't checked.

Every 120 I've ever worked on has had the same stud PCD on the wheels, and it's different from that on a 140/164/1800E/1800ES/240 etc. All the cars with the later stud pattern have rear disk brakes.

The early 140 hubcap is the same diameter as a 120 hubcap, but has pressings in the face, the 120 hubcap is smooth, apart from the circle in the centre.

All sorts of stuff was changed on the late 120 series cars, but it is largely deletions, bonnet stripe, over riders, door pockets etc, or safety related stuff like the dual circuit brakes. In essence they were trying to differentiate those late cars from the 140, for instance on my 1970 121 2 door the handbrake lever is painted black rather than chromed.

As I say, I have a proper 1970 full dual circuit brake car, which as far as I know were never supplied to the US, and even it has early stud spacing despite the fact that the dual circuit setup is essentially 1800E/1800ES. This is different again from the US 1968 dual circuit brake setup. All those late European spec cars had rear drum brakes. There is only one drum for the whole model range, all ages, all models, all markets. Ergo, the stud spacing is the same on all the cars.

If you look at a parts book there are listings for 4 wheel disk braked 120's, I've never personally seen one. I doubt one made it to the States, there is a road test of one in Australia.



Regards


Pete