Extreme Rims Worth Your Life
#18
nice NSX sig. I did not see you post and the NSX was my first comment/post and it did come up a few times https://www.clublexus.com/forums/car...ats-yours.html. Show the beast!!
Last edited by tecman; 02-17-14 at 05:16 PM.
#20
WTF is wrong with them???? Taking pictures to flaunt and your wheels aren't clean. Get some westley's bleach white on those vogue tires, f'king ridiculous to be rolling around in $250,000 worth of Roller and not have it properly detailed.
BTW, I do love the wire wheels, but this ***** is ridiculous. My old hooptie on factory wires.
1984 Eldorado with correct factory wire wheels
BTW, I do love the wire wheels, but this ***** is ridiculous. My old hooptie on factory wires.
1984 Eldorado with correct factory wire wheels
#23
Out of Warranty
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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...or-1599663.php
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...cal&id=7699639
http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/39657/di...-her-life.html
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life...4907972.php#/0
Last edited by Lil4X; 02-18-14 at 10:39 PM.
#24
Some die for their desired sneakers or coat so yes, killing for wheels is no surprise to me.
#25
Lexus Fanatic
No offense, Bob, but even if those wheel covers are still being sold in the underground market or on places like E-Bay, they (may) be illegal under Federal law.....though I'm not sure if they can legally be sold aftermarket or not. Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got Congress to outlaw projecting spinner-covers on new cars (the same legislation, I think, that set up the NHTSA, made seat belts/shoulder harnesses standard, mandated padded-dashes, and got rid of sharp-surfaced controls/handles inside of the cars). That's why you haven't seen them come from the factory on American-market cars for almost 50 years....though recent Mustangs have more or less imitated them in a safer, non-projecting manner.
Last edited by mmarshall; 02-19-14 at 07:37 PM.
#27
Out of Warranty
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Local sources say those "elbows" are not legal, but they are kind of a badge of membership in one gang or another. Carjackings have gotten so common that owners of these rims routinely ride strapped - to defend their rims against all comers. Cops know this and usually let them pass . . . I suspect some sort of social cleansing of the gene pool here, where gang-bangers perform their own "cleanup operations" where rivals are shot to death on the streets. Saves the cops a lot of paperwork, they say, so they turn a blind eye on it.
Now, if it's near the end of the shift and a cop is feeling his disciplinarian tank running low, before he punches out for the night, all he needs to do is pull over one of these "swangers" because he knows with a great deal of certainty that there is at least ONE handgun on board . . . for "self-defense" purposes, you understand.
Now, if it's near the end of the shift and a cop is feeling his disciplinarian tank running low, before he punches out for the night, all he needs to do is pull over one of these "swangers" because he knows with a great deal of certainty that there is at least ONE handgun on board . . . for "self-defense" purposes, you understand.
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