oldrx7

For a long time I think simmons were considered the only 'quality' wheel you could get in 4x110.  I know in my younger days of going to the nationals it was always 'wow simmons'.  But yeh, that was my view, probably informed by car magazines from NZ and Aus having the show cars running simmons.

ROH had a couple of premium 3 piece designs I guess too, but yeh, cheaper, and easier available wheels were the hotwires/modgies, 1 piece roh/motoform. 

Then adapters came out early 2000's and bam, 17's were easily available and then the sex-spec chromies came out too ...

Then the remake modgies started being sold around 2003/4 so those took off again.

oldrx7 rotang rims history lesson 101*

*(IMO of course).

15 hours ago, RXFORD said:

I get the nostalgia but the Kiwi rotary scene is weird when it comes to wheels.

I think you summed it up perfectly there.  It is a bit weird.

It used to be difficult to find 4x110 wheels, so the 90's I could understand being limited choice and the cars were cheap, so why bother changing stud patterns etc. 

But now, we're talking expensive cars, 50-100k mazdas running cheap rims ...

Now the internet is easy to navigate and importing company's are easy to find.  Plus heaps of rims can be changed from 4x114 to 4x110 to keep the mazda stud pattern. 

But it's odd, people know what they know, I guess, it's 'the rotary thing' maybe ...

And mangel modgies & eagers will always be the ducks nuts.

33 minutes ago, dabuzz said:

Its quite hard to find JDM wheels in 4x110, there just isn't the selection, and becomes too hard navigating Japanese sites for the odd set that pops up, or totally changing PCD on either the rims or the car itself.  

Just gotta pay the cost to be the boss and be lazy, get Pine Eng to sort it all for you.  Literally their website is a like a retail shop now, choose size, offset, stud pattern, colour etc.

14 minutes ago, 440bbm said:

Nostalgia at its finest. Is that a recent car or old photo? 

57 minutes ago, dabuzz said:

Was waiting for that- i love it, but its certainly divided the Facebook experts

Haven't seen the FB hate, but they're just wheels ... had modgies last week, Titans this week.  I'm bugging him to put the titans on the other cars in his fleet and it'll replenish some pics for titan tuesdays.

Hopefully jap wheels will be on the cards one day too lol.

21 minutes ago, 440bbm said:

I def agree that the old girls that are being used on weekends and such like should have different rules to follow than daily drivers.

9 minutes ago, igor said:

Where, and how, would you draw the line? Limited annual mileage traveled or some other criteria?

All of which is getting silly - simple rules for what should be a simple system.

Annual wof's for all cars. 

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxD9wWNoO5xqtXsPZ-6aZd0UjXLogMEvzf?si=7ZhnnQktgxOqRd7E

Did lol at this.

Modular Monday 

Would have to scroll back a few pages, but the auction for that when it was in England was posted / yarned about here.

Awesome to see it ended up in Nz with a good owner 

Two of 'em on TM right now, very nice looking cars.

^ lols - hopefully it's back at Meremere on Sunday for rotary only drags.

Modular Monday 

Stubbled over this on insta … might be from Puerto Rico 

TT

This person tried

Modular Monday 

Broaden it to all simmons and yep, no shortage of supply 

3 hours ago, GARDRB said:

Lets have MK2 Monday instead of modular Monday

That would only last like 3 or 4 weeks though.

Modular Monday is infinite lol

Modular Monday

I'm sure you've already had the thought - but what about a rougher unpainted bonnet to chop up?  Or nah, send it.