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Car rims so coveted, some people will even kill for them
chron.com ^ | 4-18-10 | Mike Tolson

Posted on 04/20/2010 6:44:05 AM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: 12Gauge687

Ok, I have googled Vogue rims, and I don’t get what is so special about them.

In Japan I recall a lot of people using narrow(er) tires on wide wheels - so that the wheels were actually extended beyond the rubber. They call it “Hard Parker” style. It’s hard to Park.


61 posted on 04/20/2010 11:31:48 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Celerity

All I know is that the rims are very expensive. There’s some irony in putting expensive rims on a ‘93 Buick, whose resale value is significantly less than the rims.

There was an article a couple of years ago in the Wall Street Journal about companies and suppliers leasing the rims as well as selling insurance only for the rims and tires. I was really amused by Toyota Celica owner with new tires and leased rims that would cost him more in one year than the residual value of his souped-up import.


62 posted on 04/20/2010 11:46:59 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Not necessary - I agree that these are barbarians, with no scruples; who place no value on the lives of others...and seem to believe that owning stuff is more important than honor.

Our uncivilization is in a chronic, irreversible state. Sadly, today, as opposed to 50 years earlier, there are no fathers to set rules, no discipline in the schools and law enforcement is almost impotent against them.


63 posted on 04/20/2010 1:03:48 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: Fresh Wind

Never seen chrome rims that big before.


64 posted on 04/20/2010 2:44:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog (Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
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To: smokingfrog

Forty inchers, they are. Might have some fender clearance issues with those guys.


65 posted on 04/20/2010 4:45:29 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Celerity

‘’big swangaz and vogues, 20 inches sittin’ low, we ball twenty fo’s’’ Elegantly said.


66 posted on 04/21/2010 8:08:23 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Fresh Wind

idiocracy!


67 posted on 04/21/2010 9:39:27 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: OldSmaj
Quanell X is a total hypocrite. He doesn't live in Houston.
He lives in Pearland.
68 posted on 04/21/2010 11:49:34 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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To: rightly_dividing

Just stay in the suburbs. Cypress is good, I am not sure about Hockley.


69 posted on 04/21/2010 11:55:18 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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