View Poll Results: Which look do you like better?
Stock Rallys and redlines
100
75.19%
70s Cragars And T/As
33
24.81%
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Which look do you like better?
Race Director
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"Lots of write-in votes for Torque Thrusts".
What about the polished torque thrust?
I wish someone manufactured a nice billet 17" Rally wheel.
I would run them on my 73.
All the ones I've seen in 17" just look off.
What about the polished torque thrust?
I wish someone manufactured a nice billet 17" Rally wheel.
I would run them on my 73.
All the ones I've seen in 17" just look off.
Team Owner
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They look "off" because as you "scale up" the Rally Wheel to a 17" diameter, the zone where the slots are gets proportionally larger. You then either leave the slots the same size, which would make them look "strangely small", or you scale them up, and they look "strangely large". We're used to seeing the Rally Wheel in a 15" size, with the details in those proportions.
Race Director
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They look "off" because as you "scale up" the Rally Wheel to a 17" diameter, the zone where the slots are gets proportionally larger. You then either leave the slots the same size, which would make them look "strangely small", or you scale them up, and they look "strangely large". We're used to seeing the Rally Wheel in a 15" size, with the details in those proportions.
Maybe making the slots longer but narrower on the 17" would help.
Le Mans Master
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They look "off" because as you "scale up" the Rally Wheel to a 17" diameter, the zone where the slots are gets proportionally larger. You then either leave the slots the same size, which would make them look "strangely small", or you scale them up, and they look "strangely large". We're used to seeing the Rally Wheel in a 15" size, with the details in those proportions.
I remember many years ago going to a car show and seeing the classic Cragar style wheel in a 17" and it just looked weird and clunky as the spokes got very wide where they met the rim. I don't think Cragar makes its SS style wheel in bigger than 15 inch any more though.
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Did they stop making those? Like the previous posts, I don’t care for the “scaled up” versions of the Rallys or Cragars, they really look “off” to me, too.
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Le Mans Master
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I'm just assuming they stopped making them as I saw them for a couple of years 10-15 years ago and haven't seen them on a car since.
Melting Slicks
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Out esteemed Moderator KNOWS I'm a 'wiseguy'...so just to put a "pertuberance in the force"
Vintage....oh YEAH!
right size= ditto.
Unkahal
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/w...917603532.html
Vintage....oh YEAH!
right size= ditto.
Unkahal
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/w...917603532.html
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Out esteemed Moderator KNOWS I'm a 'wiseguy'...so just to put a "pertuberance in the force"
Vintage....oh YEAH!
right size= ditto.
Unkahal
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/w...917603532.html
Vintage....oh YEAH!
right size= ditto.
Unkahal
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/w...917603532.html
Oh I wouldn't be able to think about the wheels until I addressed those stock exhaust openings. My OCD would keep me up at night.
