Old school vs new school tastes.

I mean... the trucks out here can get away with wearing low-pro's. I dare someone that lives in the swamps to wear those shoes.

 

I'm tired of seeing black wheels. It has to do a lot with my car history. Honda's or imports in general have been doing this for decades. One of the most common being spoon sw388's. A simple 5 spoke matte black wheel commonly known as slipstreams.

 

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

 

I think for a car low pros with big wheels are fine.No truck should have low pro tires on it ( and by truck I mean a regular pickup. 4x4 or pre-runner.An X-Runner or sport truck is different. ) But to the all black wheel thing,I don't care for it. I grew up looking at rims or mags ( as we called them ). Most were cast and polished or painted. Not too many were chrome,and I never really cared for the chrome look. I like a decent looking machine finish cleared or a powdercoated/painted look. Thinking of a bronze or gold color for my SWB a'la Subaru race colors. Always thought those colors went well together.

 

Nice truck.

Hey, I wasn't meaning to insult. Someone can look at the things I do to my truck and say, 'yuk'. It is all subjective.

Actually, this setup is pretty nice. The studded profile of the tires and wells make nice contrast. It's not my preference but I prefer Pepsi vs Coke and this is just as irrelevant. As far as blobs, I am talking blacked-out like black truck, black wheels with no contrast etc...basically, a truck that looks like a featureless brick with empty wheel wells, at least to my subjective eyes. Someone else may look at the same thing and have the opposite view . There is no right or wrong.

 

No Worries. Can't be thin skinned when you're hanging around a BBS.

And yeah, I do like the beads/bolt heads theme to break up the black.

That particular photo really lends itself to what you were talking about because it's so back lit.

I like this one better (though it's back lit also)

 

mMmm... a properly equipped EG riding on 15" slipsteams

 

I prefer to think of it as "stealth."

 

Was hoping for something like this^^^.

Gotcha.

I dont like this chrome wheel setup below.

 

This is gonna turn into a black-truck-pride thread.

 

In the end as mentioned it's all subjective. No style is right or wrong. I notice that older folks are almost always against black wheels and stuff. I hear it all the time from older people asking me why I didn't go with chrome wheels. Whereas I almost always get compliments on the truck from the younger folk. I never even considered anything else I was either going black(preferably a matte finish) or just going to keep my stock wheels.

I'd never ever buy aftermarket chrome rims, and most factory ones I don't like on trucks either that are out right now with the exception of the 20's on the Ram sport that's probably the only truck I'd opt for chrome wheels on.

 

I hate to think of myself as "old", but I just realized that at 41 I am twice as old as some members here. I grew up when chrome meant fancy upgrade, but I have always hated chrome. I will never pay for a chrome upgrade, in fact I will pay to get the chrome removed. I bought my truck because it came in color-keyed option, so my grill and bumpers were not chrome.
Similarly, I also think (like the older generation here) that black wheels/rims look like wheels that lost their hubcaps. There are really nice looking wheels out there, but I think if they were a gray/gunmetal shade rather than black it would look much better. I do however get the idea of black-out on a black vehicle and understand that someone might want black wheels then, but it is also not my style.
I can tolerate brushed aluminum in lieu of chrome - silver color but not shiny.

 

Is this the place for the black truck/wheels anonymous group? good I am in the right place.
Hello, my name is K9, I am 40 years old and have a black truck with black wheels/rims...

 

thank you

 

shit, im going to paint my wheels black. Its a simple, easy, non flashy color that when it gets trashed up from wheeling i can just repaint them. Chrome wheels on 4wd trucks is just to flashy and blingy and unnecessary, and too expensive to justify when I use it as a truck.