The ugly wheels thread

Duke wrote: HEAR, HEAR! GM has been terrible about this since the dawn of time.

I've made some corrections to your statement.

RossD wrote: I think slotted mags have their place on rolling chassis. Every time I see them, they are always dirty, just like that picture. Maybe they are before my time since I'm 34.

Here's some clean but unpolished slots I used to run on my Mustang.

I have a set of these ugly ducklings...

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g'day

ugh

Miata got so many things right. WHY?

These are even worse in the version with the little square grid all over the center portion.

And I really hated GM's obsession with putting the car's option list all over the exterior. I can't find any pictures, but I hated the early-mid '90s cars that literally said "A-B-S Antilock Braking System" cast into the wheel.

I remember this from another thread...worst wheels.

Yo mama said you ugly, you UGLY!

BlueInGreen44 wrote:

Guilty, I have those wheels on my 1967 Bug project, previous owner had all four drums custom drilled for 4x108. why lord? why? Now I am stuck with them until I have all new brakes drilled for the pattern of my choice. I am thinking 4x100 so all my other wheels will interchange.

i like half of the wheels in this thread.

and of course am drawing a blank on some of the ones i hate. the most ugly ones are almost always oems.

mainlandboy wrote: I never liked the look of Cragars, even on a period correct car.

BOOOO. That is all.

Camaro "Salad Shooters" Wait...they're alloys and not wheel covers?!?!

I like slot mags... Mot oem wheels are crap though.

I don't know why, but I have always wanted Ronal Bears on a miata.

You know, I could go on forever. There are thousands more terrible wheels than good looking ones.

80s Subaru steelies.

So, what makes a wheel "look" OEM? For whatever reason, they are usually very easy to spot. Is it chunky designs? Small diameter for the era?

In most cases, I prefer a well designed OEM wheel that looks appropriate for a car over a tuner look.

There was apparently some purpose behind these regarding drawing air into the brakes or something, doesn't matter still an ugly rim to put on an M5.

I always liked that style of BMW wheel. I also like the center of those MX-5 steelies. Agreed on the Cragar's looking right on the right car, like early AMX's, or older Ford trucks, like so;

Keith Tanner wrote:

turboswede wrote: Kid on the local Miata Facebook group (hey you gotta go where the deals are, doesn't mean you have to participate!) just bought a set of those cheap 90's chrome 3-spoke 15" wheels and was asking about tires to run on them. I honestly didn't think those damned things still existed anymore. Figured they were all ground up and melted down for PBR cans by now. He's got a very original sunburst yellow NA. Prior to this, he was asking about having his style bar powdercoated yellow to match the car. "Interesting" dude. So similar to this: smh

The 90s are back, you just missed the memo. This guy is building the perfect 1992 Miata from 1992.

I feel like you have to have a mustache when you drive this

And you Porsche! It upsets me that turbo twists are not handed.

Woody wrote: I hate when a car has pseudo-directional wheels, but all four are the same, so that the blades are spinning forward on one side of the car and backward on the other. I'm lookin at you, Mazda...

wearymicrobe wrote:

mainlandboy wrote: I never liked the look of Cragars, even on a period correct car.

BOOOO. That is all.

Cragars look nice for about 5 minutes.

Then the chrome starts peeling.

I'm sick of Torque Thrusts on everything.

Trans_Maro wrote: I'm sick of Torque Thrusts on everything.

Wurd...

i really despise these explorer wheels. i believe the expedition was also available with something equally terrible.