Wheels Opinions
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JFChallenger440
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I’m thinking of buying some steel wheels with the dog dish caps to give my car a more factory type look , Can’t decide whether to paint the wheels black or paint them body colour ? Any opinions ? Below is how it looks currently, Centerlines will go into storage until I fancy a change again , if anyone has any pics of a 68-70 in my colour with colour coded wheels I’d appreciate it, many Thanks url=https://postimages.org/] [/url]
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Re: Wheels Opinions
[Re: JFChallenger440]
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I vote for body colored (coloured, LOL) wheels. That Charger looks great!
Last edited by roadrunninMark; 05/01/21 03:08 PM. Reason: pic added
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05/01/21 03:29 PM
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Looks good thanks
If it was black I would keep the centerlines for the meaner look but I think white may suit the colour coded steels better
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05/01/21 10:30 PM
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I’m thinking of buying some steel wheels with the dog dish caps to give my car a more factory type look , Can’t decide whether to paint the wheels black or paint them body colour ? Any opinions ? Below is how it looks currently, Centerlines will go into storage until I fancy a change again , if anyone has any pics of a 68-70 in my colour with colour coded wheels I’d appreciate it, many Thanks url=https://postimages.org/] [/url] noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... boring steelies... keystones / americans or cragars are the best
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[Re: ph23vo]
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05/02/21 03:26 AM
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I’m thinking of buying some steel wheels with the dog dish caps to give my car a more factory type look , Can’t decide whether to paint the wheels black or paint them body colour ? Any opinions ? Below is how it looks currently, Centerlines will go into storage until I fancy a change again , if anyone has any pics of a 68-70 in my colour with colour coded wheels I’d appreciate it, many Thanks url=https://postimages.org/] [/url] noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... boring steelies... keystones / americans or cragars are the best Keystone Klassics would be my choice. I just don't get the put it back to just off assembly line look for wheels when what they had was the base stock cheapest hubcap look on a car that you're going to drive. If it's going to sit on a pedestal and never be driven because it "too rare" I can understand, it's a trophy not a car. If you bought a car new back then with the base steelie wheels it was because you were getting mags put on the next day.
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[Re: nuthinbutmopar]
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05/02/21 10:18 AM
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Note that the OP is in England, and some choices might be really expensive there, though no budget was mentioned. To my eye, it takes a pretty large wheel - 15x8 - to fill the wheelwells on 68-70 B-bodies and give them an appealing body/wheel relationship. Plus, they were under-tired back then as pretty much all American cars were. I could see a 17 or 18 but the OP wants to go with a more OEM look. It would be cool to run something nobody else has, but a Charger in GB is pretty uncommon to start with. Maybe have those Centerlines anodized red, or the Rallyes, or some big steelies, or a mag wheel that complements the body style... To me, black wheels kind of disappear and lack interest. I think some wheel sites might have a "configurator" to view a Gen2 Charger with different wheels.
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05/03/21 01:18 AM
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I'd say with all sorts of wheels being reproduced now.... Cragars, Slots, Keystones.... let your imagination go! Steelies and Doggies are sooooo 2004.
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05/03/21 11:23 AM
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I'd say with all sorts of wheels being reproduced now.... Cragars, Slots, Keystones.... let your imagination go! Steelies and Doggies are sooooo 2004. Cragars and Keystones especially look good on old Mopars, but I would not buy them as they seem to have issues with the chrome finish rusting/pitting/flaking.
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05/03/21 05:20 PM
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I'd say with all sorts of wheels being reproduced now.... Cragars, Slots, Keystones.... let your imagination go! Steelies and Doggies are sooooo 2004. And Centerline is a 1980s street racer. But I like both looks. There is also nothing wrong with slots my 1st set of rims were used slots and was one of the things that got me into sanding and polishing back in the 70s. I moved up to 5 spoke chrome though for the White Trash street racer look with 50 series tires and High Jackets. There is lots of good options to choose from except forget about Big Rims they have no place on old cars and trucks in my opinion.
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To each his own, but painted steelies and poverty caps totally destroy the look of a Mopar Muscle car. I feel bad for the poor cars that have to suffer that shame.
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05/04/21 08:27 PM
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To each his own, but painted steelies and poverty caps totally destroy the look of a Mopar Muscle car. I feel bad for the poor cars that have to suffer that shame. the Charger was expensive & the top of the heap for a Mopar B-body = OPTIONS $$$wheel covers and/or wheels were an easy dress-up (I'm sure a few were ordered specifically to be "up-graded" to aftermarket wheel when new) per the option & accessory report ONLY ~3.1% (~850) of the ~27,423 V8 Charger 500s (XP29) had hub caps
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05/05/21 11:45 AM
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my charger has dog dish caps now, because at the time, i didn't have any wheels other than the steelies to use to get it back on the road in 2000. it had been parked since around 1985. it then was parked from around 2007 until a couple of years ago, when it was removed from storage and i'm working to get it back on the road. from 1971/2 until parked the first time, it wore keystone 5 spokes, cragar s/s, aluminum slots, and various other wheels. this time around, the wheels will be different, but i haven't decided exactly what they will be. i hafta' get it going first...........
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