You get what you pay for. I just scored four Yokohama 255/50/16s for my 87, they are like new, 400 bucks.

The fellow I bought them from got them for his 85, he put about 500 miles on them. He was cruising down the road, came around a curve in the raod and ran over a brick.

It blew the tire and broke the rim! Man that must have been noisy! As luck would have it he just happened to be right in front of the place he bought the tires from. Can you believe that! Karma.

The tire was covered under road hazard warranty but they had to wait a couple of hours for a new wheel to make its way out to the tire shop. While he was waiting they upsold him to chrome ZR1 17s. Crazy big bucks, over three THOUSAND dollars for new BGFs and wheels.

I got this story when I showed up to buy the tires, they were still mounted on his original 16 inch rims, so we had to go to the tire shop to get them knocked off. Sure enough true story, the tire guy confirms everything.

The fellow I' m buying the tires from can't wait to show me his new CHROME ZR1 wheels and tires. The car has been sitting outside under a tarp for about two months because it is winter.

The ZR1 rims are visible under the tarp. What I see the cheapest Chinese knock off of ZR1 wheels you can imagine. The chrome is like one molecule thick and there is white "mould" already starting to grow from the wheel through the "chrome" because he didn't think to wash the road salt off and wax the wheels before going for winter storage.

Poor guy, those wheels are going to look like crap by spring time.
Oh well, his losss is my gain.

 

 

Sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time. Does the guy KNOW his new wheels are crap?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJU5QellNug

 

Hey, was just playing that on the Gibson tonight, good song..

 

rockon

 

Sometime bargain wheels are not much of a bargain.