everyone give me your opinion. i grew up with the dragers, my dad had a set on his 64 chevelle and the pontial lemans i bought recently has a set on it. i really wanted to go with big white walls and steel wheels but i cant make up my mind.
everyone is about to say no...but...shhhh...come closer...closer...o.k., their cool ! but only when used in the right application...never...NEVER use the crager for evil purposes...such as with Wide White Walls.
Crager SS mags are way cool. Possibly the best looking mag wheel ever. IMO That being said, they are NOT for every car. 60's muscle cars? Hell yea! Everything else, you need to REALLY think about it. The same goes for raised white letter tires. BE VERY CAREFUL.
well they are currently on a 1965 pontiac lemans 4 door, thats right i said 4 door. gotta love it, no white walls though.
Yeah, they are cool now and in the sixty's but not cool on everything and please no wide whites on them. But red stripe go for it! HRP
They will look really good on that Pontiac with pinstripe whitewalls if the car sits real low. And has chrome lakes pipes. That's my final answer.
No 4 doors. Mags on a 4 door looks like you're trying to be a hot rodder and only had your moms car to work with. You may as well paint flames on the mini van.
ignore the 4 door haters. while I wouldn't go out and buy a set of new cragar SS mags for a 4 door lemans, if they were already there and in good shape I'd sure keep them. no wide whites at all on Cragar SS, or a 64 lemans for that matter
They will work on any car but not any tire. I would agree that wide whites would be a no-no. I'm getting a set for my Studebaker with red stripes.
thank you for your support. i guess what they say about opinions is true. just wanting feedback not hatred.
they´re awesome on a 60s car with skinny whites... leave them on, that´s hard to beat. Chris
Yup - for any car built in the style of the mid-sixties to late seventies, the old Cragar S/S is totally viable. They were able to endure the onslaught of U.S. Mag slotted wheels and Hurricane/Vector/Turbine mags, but when Centerline Auto-Drags, Weld Draglites and those Enkei Type 26 "Sawblade" wheels came out in the late sevnties and early eighties, it was the death knell for the Cragar S/S... Now they're cool again... as long as you're doing a sixties/seventies car. I saw pics of Cragar S/S mags in a drag magazine from '65, so I guess that's about as early a style as you should shoot for, and that's directly in pinstripe white/red/gold/blue wall territory.
i think the SS came out in '64, so they're right on in the right application... car looks good, extra doors or no. it'd look even better dropped level all around. 4 doors are handy as cruisers, and cruisers oughta be looooooooow.
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