'80s wheel appreciation thread

SkinnyG wrote: My daily for four years: Wheels were 15x7 "Centra," which I found used at a local tire shop.

Yummm; directional wheels on a Honda:

These are SL25's from Superlight (no relation to Superlite, aka Minilite knock-offs).

I can't believe we've gotten this far without the MR2 Triangles. I still had multiple sets until recently.

Oddly enough, the Dodge Mirada had good-looking wheels:

Mustang SVO:

slantvaliant wrote: Mustang SVO:

Porsche sewer grates, man hole covers look a lot like the svo wheels

oldeskewltoy wrote: Trakyoto Drag 902.... aka Japanese 4 bolt Ronal R9's....

By far the best 4 lug version of the wheel, ARE/Enkei sold this version which is not as attractive.

EvanB wrote: In reply to chandlerGTi: Do you have anything in 4x108 sitting around?

4 X 108 is the unloved bastard son of Edsel Ford or something...why the FiST didn't come with 4x100s is beyond me. People are having custom hubs machined just to be able to find wheels!

The reason that 5-spoke wheels were popular:

Most Ferraris had that basic layout. Mmmmmm.

When the Firebird got the GN motor, it got the wheels too, only in Gold.

SilverFleet wrote: Honorable mention: the wheels on late 80's Hot Wheels RULED. I have this exact car.

To this day, the fastest wheels on a hot wheels ive ever seen. Also the best.

Let's talk about 3-spoke wheels.

Not bad, almost passable.

Lost a little bit to production, but still doesn't make me want to vomit.

No!

Grrrhhmmmmm. (I threw up in my mouth a bit)

Let's add nipples!

Please, make it stop!

HURLCHUCKPUKE!

Ugh, at least they never stooped so low as to make TWO spoke wheels.

At least Ford was out there making the meat-slicer wheels on the SHO and not messing about with three-spoke abominations...

Aw Jeez Ford?!?!?!?

I only want to argue about three spoke wheels a little. Advan and advan v2s.........

SilverFleet wrote: Honorable mention: the wheels on late 80's Hot Wheels RULED. I have this exact car.

You know, that wheel existed in real life on the GC 626:

Beretta GTU (GTZ?)

I like 3-spoke wheels. But yeah they're very hard to do properly and if you get them wrong they look like buttcake.

Imagine a dished, brushed, 16x7/8 staggered version of the AW11 wheel. Yes.

gearheadE30 wrote: Beretta GTU (GTZ?)

I don't care what anyone says, I would rock one of those as a daily in a heartbeat (of America). But seriously, they still look great.

SilverFleet wrote:

gearheadE30 wrote: Beretta GTU (GTZ?)

I don't care what anyone says, I would rock one of those as a daily in a heartbeat (of America). But seriously, they still look great.

I saw those on a corrado, are they 5x100? It looked great!

Yeah 5x100. Yeah Berettas are awesome.

Reminder - buy a Beretta.

chandlerGTi wrote: BBS Mahle, technically a 70's wheel but they were on lots of E24/w126/911 in the eighties

Seriously man, if you ever come across a nice set of wheels for a W126 let me know. I am looking for a set for mine.

JamesMcD wrote:

SilverFleet wrote: Honorable mention: the wheels on late 80's Hot Wheels RULED. I have this exact car.

You know, that wheel existed in real life on the GC 626:

There was a set of MoMos that looked like this, but turned to eleven. I'll see if I still have pics on a floppy disc somewhere lol...

I'm ashamed of all of you. 6 pages and not one mention of the VW Pirelli wheels?

In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:

Oh my. I must have those!

These weren't the ones I was thinking of, but close...

I really want a time machine to go back and buy old things. I would love to get a hold of some old catalogs.

I also had these on my '86 Subaru GL Coupe.