# Big wheels **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209 "2012-08-21T04:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/21 "2012-08-22T09:24:20Z")
Saw this at the local junkyard. (Pretty sure this was done as a practical joke at the owner’s expense…not even sure if they were bolted on) ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/22 "2012-08-22T17:20:27Z")
The local dealer in Rimz is “Rent-N-Ride Rimz.” The car owner is so compelled to have the huge wheels that he contracts to pay by the week to drive on them and the retailer can send the Repo wrecker to grab the car and bring it in if a payment is late. They may be installing the used car lot timers that shut the car down unless a pass word is used to reset them at each payment interval. Conspicuous consumption at its finest. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/23 "2012-08-22T21:56:03Z")
The trend I really don’t get with the “old cars with big wheels” style is putting candy and cereal logos on the door. ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xRFNBWST25E/THg1iuxgJFI/AAAAAAAAFqU/Z8TDv9ZptCA/s640/Fruit_Loops_Donk_Art_Car2.jpg) ![](http://www.gearheadhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/donk5.jpg) ![](http://www.modifiedplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/car-photo-1983-pontiac-bonneville-donk-captain-crunch.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![london](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/76d3ee/32.png) [@london](https://community.cartalk.com/u/london)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/24 "2012-08-22T23:10:52Z")
Whoa! That’s a serious case of childhood reversion (or more likely, permanently stuck there). Are there any with healthy cereal choices? ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/25 "2012-08-23T00:41:00Z")
Not that I’m aware of. Somehow I don’t think granola would appeal 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bscar2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar2/32/2468_2.png) [@bscar2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar2)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/26 "2012-08-23T02:28:10Z")
I think those are called Donks or Boxes, depending on the era the car was made. ---
**Author:** ![london](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/76d3ee/32.png) [@london](https://community.cartalk.com/u/london)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/27 "2012-08-23T17:55:37Z")
Wish I had pictures but several of the bored and intoxicated ‘Roads’ scholars in a little place near here called Dashwood outfitted a picnic table with wheels and a lawnmower engine and were apprehended over the weekend cruising the main drag. No word on the size of the wheels or how it was steered and stopped. The only charges were having liquor in an open container. Pretty much an essential and of course copious ingredient for any Darwin Award aspirant. I guess the HTA isn’t quite broad enough yet to define this one: PUI? Operating an unlicensed picnic table? Careless picnicking? ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/28 "2012-08-23T21:12:12Z")
Classic video @bscar. @london There’s a guy in the UK who built a street-legal sofa. And a bed. And a shopping cart. And an office. ---
**Author:** ![doubleclutch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/doubleclutch/32/1281_2.png) [@doubleclutch](https://community.cartalk.com/u/doubleclutch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/29 "2012-08-24T03:47:16Z")
I’m really surprised that the “demon camber” thing is legal, if it is. It looks unsafe! The immature stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/30 "2012-08-24T16:17:50Z")
I’m not sure it is. The cruizin’ crowd has always done stuff to their cars that isn’t legal. Underglow neons, little blue dots in the tail lights (which actually they lobbied together and got made legal at least in some states), drop-hydraulics with magnesium skid plates so they can do a shower of sparks as they drive along, etc. But to be cited for it, they have to be caught. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209/31 "2012-08-24T19:18:53Z")
In NH it’d be illegal. NH limits suspension mods. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/big-wheels/74209.md?page=1)