I saw these rims and thought to myself "those are the ones!" Then I looked at a website that actually sells them and saw the price tag. Ouch!!

http://www.americanracing.com/wheels...oy&section=SL#

 

Those are pretty nice... very similar to the upgraded stock rims with spinners. If you like that look, but are wanting to go with a bigger tire, that's a good way to go.

Nice rims are generally never cheap.

 

I thought, being American Racing, they'd be reasonable. But they do have Carroll Shelby's name on them so I should have known better.

The polished ones (they come with a gray painted center also) in 17" or 18" sizes are anywhere from $300 to $350 apiece from what I saw.

I won't buy rims for a while. I want my car to be faster before it gets more stylish. It's already a hot car!! But when I do buy some, I want to achieve some sort of "modernized retro" look... whatever that means. 17" chrome Bullitts would be cool, but I see so many peole with Bullitts.

 

Ouch. To rich for my blood.

 

Those look a lot like the Edelbrock 454 whells that I liked for awhile, and they have about the same pricetag. I agree with going for the modernized retro look. I'm thinking that I'm going to go with the FR500 wheels, I like them a lot, but I don't know if spinners will work with them. I really like the spinner look. Anyone know?

 

These are replica's or knock-offs the Halibrand wheel that's been around forever (going back to the Shelby Cobra days). There's several companies around that make this style of wheel including Halibrand. I bought my 17" Halibrand Cobra III's from Discount Tire for less than $200 each and love them. From time to time, you can find pretty good deals on this style wheel from Halibrand direct on ebay too.

 

Here is the closest ones I could find to them, they are 20's and still costly....couldn't find anything less on the net or on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/05-MU...QQcmdZViewItem

 

As I noted, you can find these direct from halibrand on ebay from time to time. Their seller id is halibrandperf. Here's a set of 18" Chrome Halibrand Cobra III's that didn't sell. Buy it now price was $640.

Halibrands On Ebay

 

My bad, those look great btw.

 

Had I known that I could have picked up the chrome 18"'s for $650 I would have probably chosen these instead of the "standard" Cobra III's. I think this is a great deal for $650.

More Halibrands On Ebay

There's no auction for them right now but it appears they are still available in their online ebay store?

Shoot...now I might have to upgrade to 18" wheels!