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My black C6Z came with chrome spider wheels. Loved them...but a few years later swapped out for some WCC black wheels with a red pin stripe. Loved the new "evil" look but a few years later swapped back my OE chromies and loved it like a new car! A Corvette looks great period. The wheels are just accents!
Nothing says ricer more than a murdered out black-on-black-on-black-on-black (ad nauseum) car. The best accessory for those things is a fart-can exhaust, plenty of plasti-dip and maybe some under-body neon.
Hey, to each his own. Personally I love my color choices, and quite frankly for my car mine is the only opinion that matters.
I didn't like black wheels until I say them on my new C7 at the dealership. It goes with the trim and spoiler but, more than that, also Pairs with Watkins glen grey very nicely. At some point, I'll get 19/20's in either polished or silver and will have to say goodbye to the black bat mobile wheels.
OK, I don't know why it has not come out before that black wheels are hardly a new item. It's a fad that's current but was borrowed from the 60's.
That's right, I said black wheels were the big rage back in the 60s, especially on the east coast.
In the 40s and 50s, most cars were manufactured with wheels painted the same color as the car. Very late in the 50's, new cars with full wheel hub caps began being equipped with black wheels. It was a cost savings for manufacturers. In the 60s it became the cool thing to remove the full wheel hubcaps and put mini-moon caps that just covered the lug nuts, but exposed the rest of the black wheels. The guys who bought older cars from the 50s, which was most of them, painted the colored wheels black to mimic the newer 60s cars, then added the small moon hubcaps.
If you want to mock the 60s, find someone with hubcaps. As for black wheels, nothing new here, just a new twist on the old 1960s wheel color. So it would be accurate to tell someone with black wheels, "Hey, the 60's called, they want their black wheels back".
EDIT: Oh, BTW, I don't have chrome wheels.
Last edited by roadbike56; May 9, 2017 at 12:22 AM.
Imma TNA guy....while most are one way or the other and firmly planted I appreciate them both but black and yellow went with my car better ......I like em both....
OK, I don't know why it has not come out before that black wheels are hardly a new item. It's a fad that's current but was borrowed from the 60's.
That's right, I said black wheels were the big rage back in the 60s, especially on the east coast.
In the 40s and 50s, most cars were manufactured with wheels painted the same color as the car. Very late in the 50's, new cars with full wheel hub caps began being equipped with black wheels. It was a cost savings for manufacturers. In the 60s it became the cool thing to remove the full wheel hubcaps and put mini-moon caps that just covered the lug nuts, but exposed the rest of the black wheels. The guys who bought older cars from the 50s, which was most of them, painted the colored wheels black to mimic the newer 60s cars, then added the small moon hubcaps.
If you want to mock the 60s, find someone with hubcaps. As for black wheels, nothing new here, just a new twist on the old 1960s wheel color. So it would be accurate to tell someone with black wheels, "Hey, the 60's called, they want their black wheels back".
EDIT: Oh, BTW, I don't have chrome wheels.
I painted my wheels black many times in the sixties and put on baby moons.
When I see a car with black rims, I expect to see the owner walk up to it with elastic cuff pants and/or a flat brim hat with his ears tucked in...... Fad follower
So much hate in this thread and insecure people who feel the need to validate their purchase (whether black, chrome, or silver). Buy what you like and leave it at that. I really don't care what finish/color your wheels have, I don't have to make the car payment...
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