The OEM Wheels on the "wrong" car thread (Read OP)

[-Fred-]

I like it.

 

[TexRex]

I like it.

I do too. They're obviously different in nearly every way (they may share a center cap?), but they feel like a GT 10-hole. I think it's the finish?

What's crazy is I'm not super thrilled about those on a T-bird. They're the best OE wheel on the '87-8s, with a 14" steel wheel with hubcaps or a 14" aluminum 8-hole carried over from the earlier cars, but I just don't appreciate them on Thunderbirds. The GT 10-hole was used on earlier cars but they won't clear the calipers on Turbo Coupes or V8 cars that got the 16".

 

[TexRex]

Another GM compact SUV, this time a first gen Blazer on second gen ZR2 alloys.

And on a second gen Blazer, but not a ZR2, with appropriate tires for a non-ZR2.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

19" 987/997 Lobster Claws on a 981. This shouldn't work, but for me it actually works really well, which is interesting because it's far from my favorite wheel on a 987 or 997.

 

[Tornado]

No. Lobster claws are the C5 wagon wheels of Stuttgart.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

No. Lobster claws are the C5 wagon wheels of Stuttgart.

No, they are 19" 964 Cup wheels with lots of little holes in them. Squint, you'll see.

 

[CTznOfTime]

It works and I love it

 

[GranTurNismo]

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I wouldn't call those OEM exactly...probably from Augment meant to look like E36 M3 wheels but at least 20, if not 21".

 

[AnimalTurismo]

Nipsey's Lincoln Mark VIII on Alpina wheels.

 

[CTznOfTime]

I wouldn't call those OEM exactly...probably from Augment meant to look like E36 M3 wheels but at least 20, if not 21".

Most definitely...
The E36 would not fit into the G20 due to the studs/bolts diameter and pattern

Looks quite alright

 

[Tornado]

Nipsey's Lincoln Mark VIII on Alpina wheels.

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This, the SC/Soarer and the contemporary Eldorado/Seville all had basic silhouettes and styling that was severely let down by where wheel technology was at the time of their debut. None of them (except perhaps the Greyhound Seville) by any means look as resolved as something like the XK-8 did even in this case (the Mark VIII is still too large for its own good, for example), but the wheels on this specific one (while perhaps a touch large) go a long way towards fixing a major issue with the styling of brought on by the standard (I'm guessing) 16 inch wheels that it had paired with humongous, empty wheel wells making what was actually a fairly sleek (albeit too large) car look instead like a Caprice-style lardass with curves just spilling over itself. It's a problem that affects basically all American cars from the 90s with that sort of styling except the Corvette, Viper, Mustang Cobras and V8 Camaro/Firebirds. So many swoopy shrink wrapped rounded low beltline cars of the era were let down by not having at least the option for 17inch wheels that even the 300ZX, as fantastic of a design as it is, is just a tiny bit under-wheeled.


I've seen SC400s with 18s and it's a dramatic uplift similar to that Mark VIII, and while people only seem interesting in donking out Eldorados when they go aftermarket I see no reason that a nice BMW-style wheel of a real size wouldn't lift it just like it did with my Seville (perhaps even moreso since Eldorados and its Seville brother have so much more tumblehome than the final generation did).