[Shotimes] Car and Driver Misc

[Ron Porter]

Actually, it's been done. A few months back one of the tire mfrs showed a
wheel/tire one-piece unit. Basically a wheel with flexible spokes. Pretty
weird looking, but it has promise.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 4:38 PM
To: ronporter@ameritech.net; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Car and Driver Misc

someone should just invent a wheel with a permanent exterior "rubber band"
skin on the OD, and then you could make the whole assembly a 30" wheel and
screw the tires :)
  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Porter <ronporter@ameritech.net>
>Sent: Mar 31, 2006 4:19 PM
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Car and Driver Misc
>
>"Dubs" (which I understand to be wheels 20" or larger) also won't fit on
>smaller cars.
>
>A recent article on the new Escalade talks about a customer preview in LA
>about two years ago. The car had 20" wheels on it, and the audience (rap
>stars, etc) said they needed bigger wheels. They have revised the
suspension
>for bigger wheels and the new Escalade has 22s as an option.
>
>Ron Porter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:00 AM
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Car and Driver Misc
>
>>Even in one of the most "average" cities in America....Peoria....there 
>>are probably more imports with "dubs" than American cars.  But the 
>>typical "dub" buyer does prefer big cars, and the older American cars 
>>are a bargain right now.
>
>There are more places to hid drugs and MAC10's in a big car, and after you
>spend $8k on the wheels, that doesn't leave much left for the car itself.
A
>$1000 caprice fits the bill perfect :)
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