Best Looking Rally Wheels for GBody??
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Yeah, believe it or not, it happened shortly after moving down here to Florida from NY. The car was parked on my driveway and some brazen douche bag came by one night and popped all 4-caps off.
Ironically, when living in NY no one touched them. They were easy to steal anyway. The guy in Englishtown where my police caps came from was also selling rally cap locks. I kinda made my own using pieces of steel cable with a large washer bolted down by one of the lugnuts.
I have always loved the disc brake caps (center picture) the best. I had them on my ‘76 Malibu Classic, my ‘78 El Camino and my ‘72 Monte Carlo.
From the title, I thought this was going to be about different rally wheels, but if we're talking about caps, it's disc brake centers...hate the police caps, cause they look like they belong on a 50s car, hate the derbies because they stick out past the tire on a 7" wheel.
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8" rallies were the sh*t on these cars in the late 70s/very early 80s, mostly because they were readily available and cheap. Girl at my bank had a new '79 coupe, black and silver 2 tone, 8" rallies. That car kicked *ss in 1979. Since the prices of aluminum wheels came down and original rallies went up/became harder to find, I feel like they're all played out. And I used to run rallies on every Chevrolet I owned.
***WARNING*** If you're easily offended, exit now.
8" rallies were the sh*t on these cars in the late 70s/very early 80s, mostly because they were readily available and cheap. Girl at my bank had a new '79 coupe, black and silver 2 tone, 8" rallies. That car kicked *ss in 1979. Since the prices of aluminum wheels came down and original rallies went up/became harder to find, I feel like they're all played out. And I used to run rallies on every Chevrolet I owned.
Stockton Wheel currently exists in name only; the original owner passed away. They sell mostly Oriental wheels now. I'd love to hear of other confirmed resources, as I have two sets on 17" 50 GM truck split rims in need of non-split hoops. Now that 17" tires are common, I can put them to use again.
Poke around on the HAMB, I know there have been discussions on other places that do custom steel wheel work, but it's been a while so I don't remember who right off the top of my head
I don't get alerts from this site, so I thought this thread dies days ago.... Thanks guys for the responses. TURNA, this could be the one... Insert BUICK logo in the middle.
Looks like they make a "short" mexican hat now too
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