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Some great looking option for the chally

Old Jul 6, 2008 | 09:32 AM
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Some great looking option for the chally

Some cool chally options
Love the wheels
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Old Jul 6, 2008 | 10:42 AM
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I'm not feeling the stripes on the blue car in that last picture, but the wheels... wow, they look great.
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Old Jul 6, 2008 | 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by titanjc
I'm not feeling the stripes on the blue car in that last picture, but the wheels... wow, they look great.
IMO at least 2 of them look kind of ripped out of the page of a Mustang book... and history repeats itself.
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 10:02 AM
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Wow... I love the blue one!
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 02:52 PM
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The problem is the "Heritage" wheel is pretty much considered a Mustang wheel now. I understand that back in the day more then just one type of car had this style wheel.....in 15" lol.
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 05:41 PM
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WEll sisnce the heritage wheel is basically what i need to do my Cuda..I'm not complaining
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Old Jul 7, 2008 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by bpmurr
The problem is the "Heritage" wheel is pretty much considered a Mustang wheel now. I understand that back in the day more then just one type of car had this style wheel.....in 15" lol.
Safe to say the Mustang qualifies as having enough "heritage" to merit the association and the Camaro and Challenger live up to theirs by trying to muscle in on the success of the original pony car.
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Old Jul 8, 2008 | 11:12 PM
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Hate those old school wheels on the new car...even if it IS retro.

There's such a thing as "too much".
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Old Jul 9, 2008 | 07:58 PM
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I like the first and last set of stripes. The third pic doesn't quite do it for me.

@ that shade of blue
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Old Jul 11, 2008 | 03:36 PM
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Wheels: the standard R/T and SRT-8 ones look best, chrome one looks cheap and tacky and the Heritage one? Isn't it bad enough that just about every other Mustang for the past decade rolls on an almost identical style? All the retro-cool cache that these had on the 2001 Bullitt has long ago sunk into banality -- Ford should have saved them for the current Bullitt.

The stripes are OK, even if they don't actually improve the stunning underlying looks of the car, but at least they don't detract too badly for those who pride themselves on being different, just like the 10,000 other people who'll order them too.

The hood scoop is just your typical cheesy reproduction affectation for those who just can't let go of the good old days of 1971. Perhap offer an equally fake 8-track tape player faceplate to really complete that time warp.

The Challenger, perhaps even more so than the Stang, simply has great basic lines that is very difficult to actually improve upon or enhance though of course, it will inevitably suffer from the lemming-like urge of owners to be different -- like everybody else -- through clumsy and ostentatious ornamentation. Indeed they will succeed in being different, but few will be better for it.

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Old Jul 14, 2008 | 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Hollywood_North GT
Hate those old school wheels on the new car...even if it IS retro.

There's such a thing as "too much".
+1. I don't like them either.
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