Takes all kinds....Guess it's still hotrodding?....I guess...........

I was watching the F-1 race a few weeks ago....seemed like a couple of the cars had the front wheels not turning, just the tires....like the wheel rim was riding on bearings or something.........

 

Like I said to one guy, it isn't any stupider than styles many of us have lived thru. Can we say Pastel Pink paint with pastel purple graffics!!! :sweat:

I heard one guy calling them "Vegimatics" LOLOLOLOLOL

Brian

 

Takes all kinds....Guess it's still hotrodding?....I guess...........

Sorry but no, no it's not. It is however customizing for the mentally and aesthetically challenged....

 

seems like the uglier the wheel the more people will buy it. That's got to be some of the worst looking wheels I've seen

 

Why do they call them DONKS? Is it because only a JACKARS would do that?

 

That is the automotive equivalent of walking up on a really hot looking chick from behind only to find out her face will make your wee wee crawl up inside & hide ain:

{I guess that would work for woman too minus the wee wee part}

Well said speedydeedy




R :thumbup:

 

donk? Did you say donk?

 

Those wheels are called "floaters" believe it or not.

I wonder if it's because the look like something you might see floating in the toilet.

 

Those cars look like toys to me. I wonder if that is what they had in mind. Big boy toys.

 

That seriously, no word of a lie, makes me feel slightly nauseated.

 

Only slightly nauseated?!? They make me sick! LOL Around here they call them dubs and there are lots of places that will rent you the tires and wheels. I guess renting them is a good idea since the tires and wheels are worth more than most of the cars you see them on!

A couple of weeks ago I saw an 86' Olds that had the lift on it for what must have been a monster set of dubs but it was running regular wheels and rims. Funniest looking thing I've seen in a while. Looked like a stiff wind would blow it clean over! A small child could have ridden his trike under the thing! I guess he didn't make his rental payment on time and someone repossessed his wheels. LOL

Peg

 

I don't care one way or the other, I just stare with my chin dropped.

The thing that gets me is it is sort of like the baggy pants, what in the hell is the PURPOSE?

Do you know what I mean? In hotrodding, most every thing mod since the begining of hot rodding has had a purpose, to make it go faster. To make it go around a corner faster, go down the track faster, SOMETHING. Even top chopping was to make it more aerodynamic....to make it go faster. It evolved into ground scraping, bullet covered customs, but it's origin was SPEED.

I have to say to myself, it is no more stupid than the thousands of cars that were RUINED during the heyday of show cars in the sixties and seventies when "Zingers" and "Bathtub Buggy" were made.

How about those baggy pants, no stupider than SOME of the "Disco clothes". How about KISS?

So there are examples of some pretty stupid stuff that some of us who are knocking these wheels once did.

The problem I personally have with the baggy pants and the Donks, is where this stuff came from is largely Gang, and Rap influenced. And if you haven't had the pleasure (

) of listening to REAL street rap for a day or so, full of F this and F that and Ho this and Ho that and N this and N that and S this and S that you don't know what I am talking about.

That is the part I don't like, it represents (be damned what the particular man who is driving the thing, he may be a wonderful guy) something that is pulling America down the toilet.

And my grandmother thought Elvis was bad!

Brian

 

Yeah Elvis is BAD, Kiss is BAD, but you know what, it's rock 'n' roll.. And that's GOOD. Just go easy on the makeup please.

Now the salad shooter wheels you speak of...Crack wheels, donks, vegamatics whatever...Do you notice the OEM's are getting caught up in this epidemic also? The wheels keep getting bigger... bigger and uglier... uglier. (a lot like the typical American and the SUV's they drive)

I refuse to acknowledge and associate with the people that have the mindset that this looks 'good'.

PERIOD.. end of story.

 

Those wheels are called "floaters" believe it or not.

I wonder if it's because the look like something you might see floating in the toilet.

Ha ha! Just what I was thinking!

 

Ok, compared to that gold bathtub thing the donk cars are actually quite tastefully done lol

 

Ok, compared to that gold bathtub thing the donk cars are actually quite tastefully done lol

Yea but the rolling bath tub actually took thought planning & {drum roll please} skill & talent!

Not lets smoke a big spliff drink a coupla Fowdy's & use out Gooberment check to rent some wheels.

AND have you ever seen how impossible these POS are as far a turn radius?

They turn as well as Slammed mini's go over speed bumps.






R :thumbup:

 

Being more performance minded I think they're funny. Like no one has ever heard of unsprung weight. Like Martinsr said though, there have been an awful lot of crazes through the years. Just think about lead sleds, not many of those were modified with speed in mind. Now, obviously they've not gone out of style, and i really hope that the "rollin' on DUB's" phase would usher itself out, but you get the point.

hotrod

Rob, i totally agree about the skill part though, it takes no skill for someone to drop 10 grand a corner into tricked out rims. :nono: Just money...

 

donk-y's ars

Those donk-y's arse wheels make the cars ride like crap too.

 

Someone mentioned "renting" these wheels in this thread from what I remember (I am not going read the whole thing again) well, while I was in LA on vacation last month I drove past a place that did just that! I wanted to get a picture but the traffic sucked and I wanted to get the heck out of Dodge that evening. But no kidding "Rent a Rim" was the name of the place as I remember. :drunk:

Brian

 

I heard one guy calling them "Vegimatics" LOLOLOLOLOL
Brian

LOL, that's what I call those style wheels, to me they look like Vegimatic attachments . A trend I see developing in the Dallas area are theme cars and they all have a candy theme. Some that I have seen are Skittles, and Reses(SP) Pieces. The cars are all 80ish big cars like Impalas and Buick's and are painted up like the candy packages, with nice paint jobs. They all have big bling bling wheels. The ones I have seen have packages of candy all along the dash and rear package area....oh and they are all brothers....go figure .

Vince

 

We have themed donks around here too, the two in town that come to mind at the moment are a John Deere car and a Honey Smacks car.

 

Someone mentioned "renting" these wheels in this thread from what I remember (I am not going read the whole thing again) well, while I was in LA on vacation last month I drove past a place that did just that! I wanted to get a picture but the traffic sucked and I wanted to get the heck out of Dodge that evening. But no kidding "Rent a Rim" was the name of the place as I remember. :drunk:

Brian

There is a Rent A RIM store in St.Petersburg Florida.I saw it while visiting my daughter a couple of months ago.

 

BLING !!

BLING !!

Here's the rim train Whoooo Whoooooo!!!!!!

http://www.rentawheel.com/

http://local.yahoo.com/info-30290195-rentarim-llc-tampa

http://www.rtoonline.com/content/Ar.../content/Article/Jan08/Rent-A-Tire-Acquires-Rent-A-Wheel-Florida_5378013108.asp

One of these Donkey palaces has opend up next door to my freinds shop.

I will get some shots
of a bubble Caprice that this fool {drug dealer} it putting over $60,000 into just the interior.

& sits up like a 4 w d

StooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOpid {like the steam whistle on the fool train.





R :thumbup:

 

What I want to know is where does one fall who would rent these wheels for his car? I mean, in comparison with other stupid things, where does this guy fall? I am thinking someone who would stick his hand in the toilet and grab his own turd and eat it, I am thinking that, I may be wrong but that is what I am thinking. :welcome:

Brian

 

ERRRRR.



Ummmm


Possibly..


Parole?

Better his turd than his cellie Big Bubba bad arse


To Coin a phrase by Carlos Menciea

DE DE DEEEEE!




R :thumbup: