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Old Aug 29, 2005 | 03:21 PM
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I was on one of those sites you can look at rims before you can purcahse them, and this set just stuck out like whoa, anyone else think these things look amazing?



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Old Aug 29, 2005 | 05:46 PM
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Looks a little "BMW'ish" to me. But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
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real busy looking..I got crossed eyed..
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too BBS like, not deep enough..wheels like that only look good in 3 pc. with huge pos. offsets and a center that's a different color from the rim halves. Then it spells race, like that ....bimmer eurojunk
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Old Aug 29, 2005 | 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TonySinclair
Looks a little "BMW'ish" to me. But, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
That is exactly what I was thinking.
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not my taste
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not my taste
cosign.
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Old Aug 30, 2005 | 08:49 AM
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lol maybe its my youth.
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There once was a pic of a white 78 or 79 from poland floating around on the internet...it had BMW AC Schnitzer rims...and it looked awesome. I'lls ee if I can find it. Bimmer wheels are 5 on 120mm, and 5 on 4,75 = 5 on 120.65mm ..it's almost a direct fit (apart from the hubcentricity), lots of people running bimmer wheels on 4.75 patterns here. (jaguar also has 4.75)
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it's different. i guarantee that you will be the only one that has them...
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Old Aug 30, 2005 | 10:35 AM
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Those don't match well with the corvette or any american muscle/performance machine of the C3 era. Just being honest...
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Originally Posted by Twin_Turbo
There once was a pic of a white 78 or 79 from poland floating around on the internet...it had BMW AC Schnitzer rims...and it looked awesome. I'lls ee if I can find it. Bimmer wheels are 5 on 120mm, and 5 on 4,75 = 5 on 120.65mm ..it's almost a direct fit (apart from the hubcentricity), lots of people running bimmer wheels on 4.75 patterns here. (jaguar also has 4.75)
Hmmmmm
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Opinions aside, what is the site? I've never run across one that actually had a model of the C3. I would like to go and experiment...
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Opinions aside, what is the site? I've never run across one that actually had a model of the C3. I would like to go and experiment...
www.tirerack.com

I believe those are BBS rims that Tirerack has as direct fit. The only other rims they have are the standard American Racing rims.
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Originally Posted by Twin_Turbo
There once was a pic of a white 78 or 79 from poland floating around on the internet...it had BMW AC Schnitzer rims...and it looked awesome.
Is it this one?

this one looks great if you ask me!
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