Chrome slots, next big thing?

nads, nick, rasputin...anybody else?

 

if i could find some, id rock em.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/14-C...017QQitemZ270048812774QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

holy CRAP! there CLOSE TO ME! CHEAP AND FIT MY CAR! thanks!!!

 

putting my best foot forward...

 

I have one (1) chrome slot....damn they're hard to find!

 

I remember those wheels from way back. My dad put them on everything. They were the wheel to have in the 70's

 

1972 JCWhitney catalog had a few....

 

Best looking chrome dish by far.

 

Are those chrome slots, chromed aluminum or steel? The 1979 dodge "Little red express" truck came with chromed steel slots that look really similar.

 

saw a set at an auction this weekend.. NEW.. in boxes..

and I didnt buy them..

the one chance I had to be a trendsetter..

 

Nads is an island of taste in a sea of smoothies.

 

The real deal.... Astro 'Customs' 1965

CC

 

a while ago a friend of mine had those wheels on the back of his gravely lawn mower

 

I love them and always have.

Does anyone sell them new?

I've looked but never found any.

 

There hideous, way to 70's.

If you run those and you have to grow a mustache and get a Keep on trucking bumper sticker.

 

.....and having a 'stache and a "Keep on truckin'" bumper sticker is a bad thing?

The 70's are the new 50's when it comes to hot rodding......

The winds of change have already blown. Its coming on like a case of the clap.

BAAAWWM CHIKA BAAAWWNM BOOAWNG. **70's porno music**

 

dunno...I'm holding out for white wagon wheels

 

man, I used to have a set of chrome steelie slots...I wish I had them back now, because they are exactly what I need for the front of my gasser...skinny/chrome/5x4.5 pattern...I can't even remember what the hell happened to them, I had em when I was like 14...I don't even remember where I got them...I just wish I had them back...

 

Chrome slots like these , I don't know it makes you want to paint your car with lipstick and make up. I think this used to be my car but somebody put this crap on it. Is this car in Califormia, and was it paited dark green once?[/ATTACH]

 

I personally think they are extremely ugly. But the builder of the "Cockroach" must have loved them in '65 so I think we are gonna put them back on it.

Ive been looking through all my old magazines and in the mid 60s all the drag cars had them in the rear.

 

the last set's of those i had were from the dump back in 78'! my friends dad was the night watchman and the insurance company had a 40' truckload that were from a burnt warehouse that was water damaged.spent 3 nights loading wheels into pickups and hauling them home.every car and van i owned and everyone else i could sell a set to for $40 bucks had them on their rigs. kinda glad they came along when they did because the truckload of j.c. penny under dash 8-track players were damm near sold out at $15 bucks each.

 

way too 70's? that wheel has its roots in the early 60's. it was the chrome smoothy of its era, cheap, chrome and available everywhere, even the j.c. penney catalog...

 

I looked all over for some of those for the front of my Plymouth. We called them Astro's in the late Sixties, and they were always a favorite of mine. Too Seventies? By the Seventies, they were old news.

 

I don't know about the next big thing, but they were on my dads car when I was a kid. Ive been buying them ever since.....I will have them on several of my cars!

 

I think everone (including myself) has or had the 70s stuck in there head with these wheels because not to many guys put them on their traditonal cars anymore. Evertime I have ever seen them, they have been on some 70's car. Maybe your right Steve. Maybe more people will start using them.

By the way, is there any way to tell if mine are true Astro Customs? I wouldnt be suprised if they are. The builder probably bought them when he got the car done. They dont have any brand name on them or anything.

 

I hope not. But brown and pink and avacado and orange seem to be coming on, so let the UGLY begin!

 

That horrible Falcon, those aren't chrome slots on there, those are chrome modular pieces of shit, the worst wheel ever, worse than Champ 500s.

I love chrome slots. Look at Hot Rods and Customs of the Sixties by Andy Southard, virtually every car has those wheels on 'em, fuckers were ubiquitous, cheap too. Not many exist in good condition because the plating was so terrible on them.

I'm a nostalgic fool.

Thank you Steve for the hookup.

 

I think theyre FUGLY. But, like everything else that is brought back from the dead, it will probably grow on me...........as long as nobody, I mean nobody puts WWW on them!

 

listen to this man! this is not a wheel for wide whitewalls. stick to very narrow 'pinner' whites, red lines, gold lines, blackwalls, (small) white letter bias ply or slicks...