This has been my favorite example of a car with big blinging wheels for about a year. Until today! Usually I see these kind of way oversized chrome wheels on full sized SUVs. That is so common that it only causes a gag or two and a reflex to cover the eyes to avoid the glare. It was a surprise to see way big ghetto rims on an otherwise nicely kept up ride. Notice how they just take over like a large medallion worn around the neck. Kind of hard to see the car. Anyway wondering if anyone else has seen this kind of overstatement. My new favorite from today is next.

 

And here is it. A Jaguar XK8 with the biggest blinging wheels I have seen. It takes a special eye to come up with a look like this. A unique mix of English elegance and Ghetto Fab. Just wondering where this all started. Perhaps it is one of those mysteries of style like the codpiece and the cummerbund.

 

I work off a main street and I see a few later 70 early 80"s (old school) cars with 24in wheels. Some are so high they put runnung boads just for the look. Not my style but impressed that they got wheels that big on a car.

 

There's this Pink oldsmobile I sometimes see in Chicago, where it has Chrome/Pink Rims.. now those are bling.

 

Bling

 

I think the wheels on the Jag are horrible, but I usually like blingin rims on cars that you wouldnt normally expect them on. I have always liked styles being jumbled together wierd ways. Less cookie cutter, more individual.

 

I missed a picture of the most Ghetto car I have seen. A Ford Granada with 20" wheels. Nondescript car with totally overstated wheels. Talk about jumbled styles. Individual is one thing. Desparate attempts at attention are another.

 

I see it's time to re-post a great find from Florida:

 

^^ wow that pink top even has something hanging from the back...

 

I kind of like the desparate attempts at attention too. Doesnt anyone else appreciate the humor? I love it.

And here is my favorite, parked at my local gas station.

 

Okay that one is kind of funny. I mean it isn't like a Kia with 22" wheels. That guy had a concept in mind.

 

Uhhhh, can you beat these for bling? http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...61409983798247

 

OK, it's probably the geek in me, but I think those are kinda cool (although they'd never touch my car). Lot's of engineering in there to deal with the rotational speed of the wheel and the visual perception of moving lights... yup... I'm a geek.

 

A TR6 on steroids?

...Les

 

Clo, I used to see that monstrosity(sp?) daily. He has a few buddy's as well that share his taste. I havent seen the car in quite a while though?Maybe with all of the inertia of those wheels and stock brakes, they finally gave way!

 

Haha! That was shot in the Chili's parking lot on the Mary Esther Cut-off near Jonquil in Nov. 2004. So it's a bit dated...

 

Last time I saw it, it looked just as the picture shows!

 

I think they're cool when the entire car has gotten attention/customization, I don't necessarily love them but at least that's a custom ride. I do NOT like when they just take a crappy $1200 used Buick or Crown Vic and put 24's on it.

 

This is the special look after the rim pinch flat.

 

Nice parking job, too. That guy has got a set of cajones!

 

Holly crap, kidicarus I've seen that Caddy before! I was on a business trip in Orlando and saw it driving down International Drive. There were lots of other blinged out cars there too, but that one definitely stuck out the most!

 

STUPID! Give me a break!:impatient Should have chromed the axle(s).
These wheels are even more ridiculous: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...impStar+wheels

 

I just threw up in my mouth a little.....
Jim