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October 31, 2007

Ok, This is Really Getting Ridiculous…

By John

Community Editor

The first time I saw a car sporting 30" wheels, I was a DUB show in New Jersey, and I honestly think I laughed out loud. They just looked so hilariously huge, like a cartoon or something! But I didn’t laugh when I saw this 42" wheel at the Lexani booth—I was too stunned. I mean, this thing is almost four feet across! Honestly, when is this race to the sky going to stop? Are we going to see 60" wheels soon?

SEMA 2007

Comments

Darcelle
Nov 18, 2007 at 10:18 pm

This rim goes to show you there is no limit to what a man can do, whether it be hopping a car 42 inches in the air on a pair of 13 inch Daytons or sittin high on a pair of 42 inch rims on a Chevrolet. Its been done in the early stages of the automobile but now with newer technology, and they fit on cars, ask Gilbert, Ceo of USA MOTORSPORTS who owns a 1980s regal called Donkey Kong on FORTY inch King Kong Blades, its all in what you want and when I have the money to do it I am.

a19
Nov 3, 2007 at 11:46 pm

Guess what? Everyone saying this was a waste of time and material and whatever else you’re trying to shut this down with are being absolutely ridiculous. You think they are making this so everyone will say how practical it is? NO! It is summed up in two words: PUBLICITY STUNT or even SHOCK VALUE. Ever think of that? And guess what, its working because hate it or not there is a picture of it and YOU ARE COMMENTING ON IT!!

For the record, this wheel is strictly for show and there is no vehicle it will fit on. The largest wheel able to be utilized is a 34″ and that is still being perfected.

dj ez
Nov 3, 2007 at 2:40 am

throw that bitch on a donk lol I like the bigger wheels and lifted cars and trucks on them

Adam
Nov 3, 2007 at 1:08 am

A new cause for destroyed trannys and motors. My rims were just too heavy and the motor blew up right after the tranny fell 3 feet to the ground!

Anonymous
Nov 2, 2007 at 6:42 pm

Acctually now that I think of it, it should be the Double Dub Deuce.

Anonymous
Nov 2, 2007 at 6:42 pm

I got a great new name for this kind of wheel. The Double Dub.

Ted
Nov 2, 2007 at 1:19 am

Wheel diameter escalation has already reached the point of stupidity. Get any larger and they’ll have to extend the axles and put the dubs outside of the confines of the wheel wells or jack the cars up so high they’ll have to have ladders to get in.
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…no doubt CHROME ladders.
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I liked the days when wider and wider was all the rage. Heck, eventually it got so you could plant 250′s in some larger GM sedans, if not wider, and nothing rubbed. and the lo-profile popularity made sense until the tire sidewalls reached less than 2 inches.
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Now things are just getting cartoon-like and ridiculous.

Corona
Nov 1, 2007 at 8:01 pm

I can only see an old hummer or a school bus with a 42′ but you know someone will try something else. gameover…

Jason B.
Nov 1, 2007 at 3:01 pm

A waste of time, engineering, and material (the metal used to build these.) IMHO. Wheels this size have no practical value whatsoever. Did Lexani build just one of these for display sake and shock value? Or do they plan to market wheels this big?

Highspeedhijinks
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Are we at the point now where big wheels have “jumped the shark”. Also do you realize that 2 20″ rims side by side still arent the same diameter as this rim. Thats F’n huge.

Anonymous
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:42 pm

Reffer your self to the conversation a few blogs below about the 30″ wheels. This 42″ is well taller than mini me.

retroman
Nov 1, 2007 at 3:26 am

Who knows, maybe some ghetto Amish man(like Weird Al) will snatch a pair for his buggy.

kap0w
Oct 31, 2007 at 11:34 pm

Can you tell me what sort of vehicle you could possibly put a 42″ wheel on? A Suburban on 30″s is about maxed out. Unless you’re going to pimp Bigfoot, I don’t know where you could fit a 42.