I really like the black one's wheel set up...I imagine trying to find 4 of those in good condition would be a huge feat.
72 Red Imperial Dog Dishes Off Good or Bad?
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My setup now is tight...I thought I was rubbing the fender yesterday while driving her but no proof when I inspected rears...I imagine they're 7" rims too.
Well...I just about fell off my kitchen bar stool when I saw this blue Imperial pop up on a C Body Facebook page I am a member...Harald in Austria...I love your Imperial...hope you don't mind me drooling and sharing if you are a member here. My day is complete now and it's only 3 am.
I feel better...I'm not the only one.
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Love the car but those are amongst my least favorite wheels.
Does this angle make it better or worse ? I kinda like them...maybe even better than my Shiny butt cheek dog dishes.
LocuMob
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Those wheels were on everything 20 years ago.
GJS
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The car itself is amazing. The wheels just seem cheap to me. While there is a lotta hemming and hawing on your wheels, I'd take em over these all day.
78Brougham
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All that needs is side pipes and a three inch lift in the back. Ooops... did I say that out loud
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Worse, those are atrocious at best.
I read this quote yesterday from another C body site:
"Putting Cragars and raised white letters on an Imperial is like wearing running shoes with a tuxedo."
It's true and equally painful. So I'm in love with an Imperial and I bought one...But, Fury must run in my veins apparently.
"Putting Cragars and raised white letters on an Imperial is like wearing running shoes with a tuxedo."
It's true and equally painful. So I'm in love with an Imperial and I bought one...But, Fury must run in my veins apparently.
GJS
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They'd be right at home on a early 80's Camaro Berlinetta with bad door hinges and a dead cylinder.
LocuMob
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Those guys are still around, we have a couple near me.
LocuMob
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Doc, if you haven't guessed, I like the car the way it is now, and if it we're mine it would stay that way, it just has a little attitude, and I think it goes with an eye popping color like fire truck red. Handing it back over to our Original Equipment staff!
Carmine
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The only use I could imagine for those is:
1) a cheap way to get wider-than-stock rims. I would immediatly install a wheel cover.
2) landscape trailer
GJS
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Oh yea, still see em. Chromed stamped steel rims .. perhaps a long CB antenna, a Summit racing sticker and a case of oil next to your case of Pabst ... rollin'.
commando1
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This is a very useless thread. Put some appropriate IMPERIAL wheel covers on it and stop playing all these silly what-ifs.
It's the only way to go on that car and nobody could fault it. All these crazy other options will only set you up for ridicule. Except from the 16 year old Chevy fanbois at Dairy Queen. Or is that your target audience?
And Road Wheels are not an option because they require spacer adapters and that's even worse.
There. I said it.
It's the only way to go on that car and nobody could fault it. All these crazy other options will only set you up for ridicule. Except from the 16 year old Chevy fanbois at Dairy Queen. Or is that your target audience?
And Road Wheels are not an option because they require spacer adapters and that's even worse.
There. I said it.
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