cragar ss, cool or not?

Wow,
Nice car ya got there...Just shows ya how far a little good taste will go...

 

1941 Fat Ass with Cragars and raised white letters.
I like it.

 

They are about as cool as a fucking mullet, or Stryper.

 

Everyone hated Cragers, and they still do.
Cragers marketing department has refused to stop trying to sell them because the guy who designed them is the friend of the CEO.

 

yeah... everyone, lol, that's why they sold a bazillion of them.... lol. They were originally designed by Jot Horne and basically first machined by Lloyd Green.


Stock wheels blew out with a side load of 26,000 pounds. Their new five-spoke design could withstand 41,000 lbs, and up to 43,000 lbs. At the time they were far superior to any wheel on the market and found in the winners circle of ALL forms of automotive competition. They were a performance wheel, and that's exactly why they look silly dressed in non-performance oriented wide whites... It's like putting wide whites on Weld wheels... it's an oxy moron.


For the record, anyone who has not read Roy Richter Striving for Excellence by Art Bagnall is missing out on a great book.


That all being said, the new 17's and 18's look good. Really good.

 

i have them on my 61 impala,i think the vote is in , crager wins

 

Ahh, never mind.

 

crager ss came out in 65 I have a couple of sets of 20th anniversary center caps from 1985 although thier website says 1964 http://www.cragar.com/Timeline.asp

 

Crager SS' are cool. I run 'em on my '57 Chevy.
But I'd think twice about the wide whites on that late of car. But you never know. Good luck.

 

Do they replace the steel rim when you get these refurbished? I've got an old pair that need chrome but one rim has a ding.

 

Cragers look best on '60's muscle, with the white lettering on the tire turned to the inside.

 

Not a big fan of the tri-5's but that is fuckin sweet

 

Never liked em and never will.

 

I saw a '62 Econoline Pickup this past weekend, and it had probably an '18 inch Crager SS in the back, and a '16 in the front. They had whitewalls, and it look really good. Usually I'm not partial to these, and I don't really appreciate them on WWW's, but it looked DAMN good.

-Rick

 

I really like this one. Nice contrast with the whitewall and Cragars to the flat black paint.

 

I would repair the ding after the chrome is stripped. You will not find the correct shaped rim.

You have to separate the centers from the rims before it goes into the stripping and then plating tank and after plating reweld them back together.

 

sometimes cragars are the only kool thing about a car

 

Like my buddy in high school said, (1973) Cragar SS wheels would make a garbage truck look good! Nobody that had a decent car would run anything but Cragars on a car in the 70s. Any car made previous to 1972 looks ok with Cragar SS wheels.

 

cragar ss wheels are the holy grail of automotive existance.

 

I say keep the wheels. They look great with those pinner whites on that car. All it needs now is to be lowered and I would drive the hell out of it.

 

Run the Cragars. Most of these guys only like OEM steelies. Boring!

 

I don't think the OP cares anymore. Just my thought.

 

Cragar SS

 

Cragars & 4 doors

 

the front of your Poncho needs to be in the weeds.

 

it just depends on the car.................and what you like.

 

What's wrong with cragers????? I was tooling around in this today!

 

this thread is almost 3 years old. Im sure he made up his mind already lol

 

ain't nothing wrong with a thread filled with cool cars with crager mags no matter how old it is.

 

Cragers held up better than the peeling corroding Keystones,but damn man wide whites on cragers sound bad enough but that Goat should run over you if you put wide whites on it,next you"ll want curb finders .