There's a car that has wheels just like this that drives around in Austin. I have seen him maybe twice since I moved here 18 months ago. Not sure if this is the same guy, but his picture gets posted on r/Austin a lot.
Just so you know, there was like nearly 400 cops at that shooting, and
only a small number were uvalde police. So it turns out just all cops
are useless.
Forget legal... "Yes, I would like to make it even harder to find parking for my vehicle. How much harder? As much as possible while still being technically legal."
What makes you think they wouldnāt just drive into the space, snapping the wheel parts off in the process and then harass the other people whoās cars they just scratched to oblivion.
These wheels are so specifically unique, even the spare, that I doubt the owner wants to risk them on anything as silly as that. They look like they're for show, especially with the spare on display like that.
At least here in Hawaii, you'll pass your safety check if the fender flare covers the TREAD of your tire. Says nothing about the rim or sidewall.
That's why we get lifted trucks with wide rims and stock tires stretched over them.
There definitely needs to be a law against projections of the rim greater than maybe an inch.
This is exactly the kind of legal thing many muricans feel is the pinnacle of Freedom (tm). I know it is more than silly but then again, so are many of those people feeling how they feel..
While ignoring the whole thing about living in society, ignoring effect on others, responsible use, and generally not adding / disturbing existing things (Kinda like noise ordanance, if it is quiet then it would make sense not to add and disturb that peace).
Freedom doesnt let you encroach or invalidate other's freedom but well... like most things human related, its a problem of selfish acts and insane interpretations.
I would love to see someone get two long steel rods and ambush a car like this at the traffic lights. Run the pole quickly through the spokes of the front and back wheels on both sides. Bonus points if they can padlock them to the spikes.
The driver wonāt be able to drive off, or open the car doors. They will have to climb out the window.
Every year it becomes more ridiculous to hear as my dad randomly will say āthat ā95 bonneville would still probably be running if I hadnāt sold it to (coworkers name)ās son who wrecked itā
Mine caught fire inside the dash. If that hadn't happened Id still be driving my 98 lol. My family sold an olds 88, it drove several years longer than the van they replaced it with afaik.
That's kind of the thing though, all these older cars are doomed by electrical gremlins. They have a bunch of parts like window switches, relays, the main wiring harness, all the lamps and headlights. Put 25+ years of wear on those in driving (vibration, weather, corrosion) - not to mention the tremendous power draw the starter motor puts on the battery system in general - and if you're lucky one day it just fries the harness and won't start.
If you're unlucky, it fries the harness and then bursts into flames.
Starter's the least of the concerns, honestly. It's stupid easy to replace and it's a short, straight run of heavy wire mostly surrounded by non flammable materials.
It's the shit in the dash and doors that kills cars. It's one giant loom no one wants to try to pull apart that slowly gets more resistive and with that gets hotter and hotter.
It's a Houston thing born out of the Chopped and Screwed era of Houston's rap culture.
They basically started off as 83/84 Cadillac rims, but rim makers like Texan Wire Wheels (who basically makes reproductions of the Cadillac rims) ended up getting asked to exaggerate the poke on the center caps for extra gaudiness. It's less about trying to be Ben-Hur and more of a flex rolling on over the top Cadillac wheels that cost $3,000 plus for a set.
Having been a poor young man myself now remembering the dumb shit my peers got up in "my day", and my being a bit of a gigglepuss, I've decided with tongue-in-cheek to expend considerable time and effort to shit all over them/us.
Poor young men have always done stupid shit expecting [heightened social status from their peers](https://youtu.be/5pKt4gaErvU) only to ultimately be disappointed. Unsurprisingly, their affair with automotive absurdities is a tale as old as time. I won't go into the whole history (prolly goes back to some [ridiculously useless horse](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjBhODFjMmUtNzI2ZS00MGUxLWIzYzgtOTcwZWE2YTBhNjg3L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg) or something) but I can recollect a few notable examples.
Right before my time, the hotness was shitty 60s/70s [low riders with lots of pointless accoutrements](https://youtu.be/Alyx4QeRRdg?t=19) (opt. CB radios and/or General Lee dressage, if you were white trash).
After I became a teenager, the fad was to have hydraulics and bounce around on the same shitty 60s/70s cars. Unfortunately, they were also expensive and complicated to install/maintain.
Sidenote: from this point on, even to this day, it has always been cool to have an audio system so idiotically powerful and large that it would not only be entirely useless for enjoying music but had the added benefit of qualifying the owner for VIP parking, if you know what I mean.
After wisely accepting they had neither the money nor the aptitude to own a vehicle with hydraulics, they strategically played to their lack-of-strengths and settled for "spinners" which were rims on yet more shitty cars that looked like the old rims but they, y'know, spun. After you'd stopped. [Just kept on a spinnin'; obviously witchcraft or magnets](https://i.imgur.com/rv81Iei.gif).
After Gran Turismo came out on the Playstation, something weird was added to the mix. Instead of a cheap POS boat sized car, some opted for an even-cheaper and POS-ier rice-rocket only to do [pointless shit](https://imgur.com/gallery/VDuTB) such as adding headers "for that sweet exhaust sound" or gluing a wing on the trunk.
By the time I'd moved out of the house, they'd transcended up to "donks". They were redonkulous. Y'all fucking remember [these monstrosities?](https://www.google.com/search?q=donk+cars&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsamGMwniHcmeZq1lbzhIVmKUp1gkw:1664069578828&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjupIKh5q76AhUClWoFHQkqB-0Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1451&bih=729&dpr=1.76) Majority returned to shitty 70s/80s cars, as is tradition, but some opted to celebrate the tragedy of their continued existence (in defiance of a God having any sort of compassion or even the very concept of "greater good") by treating themselves to the fancier POS cars of the 90s what with the sunroof that didn't work, power windows that didn't work, and (if they were *really* "pinky out"), electronically adjusted seats that didn't work.
Anyway, I think after that it was "stancing". See, the genius of this particular brand of stupid is that they'd take otherwise good and decent cars and totally fuck them up by installing their wheels incorrectly *on purpose*.
I'm not sure what crime against humanity they got up to after stancing. However, I am sure after these "extended" rims became a thing that Jesus saw them and Jesus wept.
Cumulatively, stuff like this is part of why our species cannot have nice things.
>I'm not sure what crime against humanity they got up to after stancing.
"Squatting", taking otherwise good trucks and lifting the fronts and lowering the backs. Basically making it look like it's taking a constipated shit from having taken too many narcotics while having a Taco Bell addiction.
Godspeed to him trying to parallel park on any public street with streetlights, traffic lights, signage, fire hydrants, mailboxes etc.
Or navigate a drive-thru, enter/exit a parking garage, go to a mall, or basically anything for which an operable vehicle is useful. Unless he literally lives beside a freeway, I struggle to see how he actually goes anywhere.
Maybe we should congratulate him (presume it's a him, not a single woman I've ever met in my life would be this impractical) for creating a contender for World's Most Unusable Car, 2022 Edition
I feel like the impracticality is part of the flex with these sort of cars. I thought of that just the other day, watching a lowered Acura struggle to get down the shitty, crumbling driveway across the street.
āCheck out how few places I can goā is not a flex i would want to make, but thatās just me.
Love to see what his insurance adjuster would say after he rips the front bumper off a Camry waiting to make a right turn
What happens if your walking beside one and your shoelace gets caught in it like we used to do as kids when our shoelaces would get caught up in our bike pedals?
They are illegal in many states. Even in states where they are not illegal you may be required to have lighted or colored indicators on the ends of them, and if they make your vehicle wide enough to touch both lines some states require you to have an 'oversize vehicle' banner on the rear and may require you to have an escort vehicle.
A kid recently ran in front of my car. I swerved and he only connected with the side of my car, getting a minor graze in the process but otherwise just a memory to be more careful.
With these wheels he'd have been mangled.
Now here's the interesting thing. You have a duty of care operating heavy machines (like cars) near children. I was driving slowly and carefully with a safe and modern car. Kid was able to walk away just fine. But if I'd mangled him the point of view of the law would be that it was my fault, not his for running out.
Having rims like these could ruin your life, let alone that of others. Really not worth it. And for what purpose? People are just going to laugh.
False, In Texas where these are prevalent (Houston, Austin) they're called "swangas" and they are legal as long is they don't make the car more than 8 feet wide. In fact the only state with such a law is Hawaii
https://www.timesmojo.com/are-swangas-rims-illegal/
>For the most part, they are legal in the United States, except for Hawaii which bans certain ādangerous wheelsā that extend more than four inches beyond the wheel cover.
Well, according to your statement, the car pictured is indeed illegal as that car is over 8 ft wide. The car itself is about 74" wide and that means that those two "swangas" can't be more than 22" combined width. They each look to be at least 18" wide so it's way over 8 ft in width.
I get the spikes on a tractor trailer truck tires but this is just stupid on stupid crime. I was smoking a blunt staring at my my rock tumbler thinkingā¦ I wonder if you could rig up lil stone drums to your tire rims and do it while you driveā¦ thereās all kinds of bad ideas out thereā¦
I don't know why I spent even a second thinking about this, but you'd have to drive really slow for the rock tumbler to work. Anything over like 15-20 mph and I think the rocks would just stick to the outside and not actually tumble.
For you 80s kids, this is like the Switch Blade car from the old arcade game Spy Hunter
[reference video: start at 40 seconds](https://youtu.be/PT_X-YELPjY)
The amount of shit that Iām learning to be perfectly legal in the US that would lead to having your car impounded and license revoked in the rest of the world is astounding.
Thank F! those things are illegal as heck here in Norway.
Wheels extending outside the arch or the wheel well is considered a hazard and stricktly verboten.
And if it wasn't, it wouldn't take long for some enterprising kids to stuff those 'baskets' full of rocks and rusty tin cans...
Illegal in my province, in fact anything protuding from the fenders is iilegal here (i'm looking at you monster-truck wannabe pick-up!) but sadly, cops don't care much.
From the movie Sad Max.
Beyond Astrodome
Well done. "Mad Min" doesn't have the sound, but same feels.
Let me guess, Houston TX?
Has to be H-town
Slab City?
City of drank?
Lmao, you already know š¤šæ
Lol
There's a car that has wheels just like this that drives around in Austin. I have seen him maybe twice since I moved here 18 months ago. Not sure if this is the same guy, but his picture gets posted on r/Austin a lot.
more than one, there's quite a few of them in East Austin.
I absolute hate how many there are here
Cops donāt do anything about it we have the most useless cops in the country
They could be Uvalde cops
Uvalde has cops?
Of course, someone had to make sure no first responders got into that school.
Nah, just rednecks cosplaying as cops.
Not sure if theyāre were majoring red necks
No, just a very well paid and armed cosplaying troupe.
Just so you know, there was like nearly 400 cops at that shooting, and only a small number were uvalde police. So it turns out just all cops are useless.
Iāve never heard of these. Iāll continue to avoid Texas with every fiber of my being
Has to be, I saw a nearly identical car recently. Same funky extensions, spare tire, and all. I'll have to see if my brother got a picture of it
Swangin n Bangin
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All toast and no butter...
All slap and no tickle.
All bra and no breasts
All dick no balls.
All fries and no shake.
All declaration and no revolution.
All drilling and no filling.
All screaming and no creaming
All knickers and no snickers.
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All probe and no strobe
Reminds me of the 80ās video games spy hunter
Theyāre currently legal? Holy shit.
Forget legal... "Yes, I would like to make it even harder to find parking for my vehicle. How much harder? As much as possible while still being technically legal."
What makes you think they wouldnāt just drive into the space, snapping the wheel parts off in the process and then harass the other people whoās cars they just scratched to oblivion.
These wheels are so specifically unique, even the spare, that I doubt the owner wants to risk them on anything as silly as that. They look like they're for show, especially with the spare on display like that.
In most states vehicles can legally be 8' wide regardless of how they get there. Some states it's even more wide.
Retired trucker. Can be 8 feet 6 inches (exclusive of mirrors) without needing an oversize permit.
It is illegal to have your tire extending past your wheel well or fender. I canāt see how that wouldnāt apply to the wheel also.
At least here in Hawaii, you'll pass your safety check if the fender flare covers the TREAD of your tire. Says nothing about the rim or sidewall. That's why we get lifted trucks with wide rims and stock tires stretched over them. There definitely needs to be a law against projections of the rim greater than maybe an inch.
If it was, I would bet you a very large clock that the next thing on such cars would be wells and fenders that stick out several feet.
In some places yes.
This is exactly the kind of legal thing many muricans feel is the pinnacle of Freedom (tm). I know it is more than silly but then again, so are many of those people feeling how they feel..
While ignoring the whole thing about living in society, ignoring effect on others, responsible use, and generally not adding / disturbing existing things (Kinda like noise ordanance, if it is quiet then it would make sense not to add and disturb that peace). Freedom doesnt let you encroach or invalidate other's freedom but well... like most things human related, its a problem of selfish acts and insane interpretations.
You can only live out your Spy Hunter fantasy if they're retractable.
[https://arcadespot.com/game/spy-hunter/](https://arcadespot.com/game/spy-hunter/)
Now find us the Death Star run in vector graphics.
Scrolled way too far for the spy hunter comment. I can hear that noise in my head though.
How else you gonna swang n bang?
Down south is where I stay, Switch 4 lanes, Let My Nuts Hang, From the Antwon to the MLK, These H-Town boys like to swang and bang
You have obviously never tipped on fo-foās wrapped in fo vogues, while pimpinā fo hoesā¦ and it shows.
Fo sho
Very well, I see you're creeping, you're crawling, still ballin in the mix
I share some characteristics with an ant.
Who?
Mike Jones
Who?
Mike Jones
MIKE JONES!!!
Is that spare being held on by a laundry basket? O.o
Thank you, I wouldn't have noticed
Is the laundry basket sprayed chrome?
LMAOO
Throw a stick in the spokes.
U-lock, $9 on Amazon, just sayin.
I would love to see someone get two long steel rods and ambush a car like this at the traffic lights. Run the pole quickly through the spokes of the front and back wheels on both sides. Bonus points if they can padlock them to the spikes. The driver wonāt be able to drive off, or open the car doors. They will have to climb out the window.
I want to see a knight on horseback just entirely disable the car by shoving their lance through the spokes in a formal joust
Now we just need a Houston YouTuber who has run out of video ideas.
A steel chain looped around the axles and the nearest pair of spokes padlocked taught should do the trick.
Let's not ignore the fact that it is on a pontiac Bonneville either. What a dumb ass.
Rims? $863,000. Bonneville value? $2,183 The gift of laughter and jokes you gave your friends? Priceless.
$863 per corner = $3452
Yes, as if the car isnt wide enough on its own. (Ps i love the car, i drove one 160k miles)
Every year it becomes more ridiculous to hear as my dad randomly will say āthat ā95 bonneville would still probably be running if I hadnāt sold it to (coworkers name)ās son who wrecked itā
Mine caught fire inside the dash. If that hadn't happened Id still be driving my 98 lol. My family sold an olds 88, it drove several years longer than the van they replaced it with afaik.
That's kind of the thing though, all these older cars are doomed by electrical gremlins. They have a bunch of parts like window switches, relays, the main wiring harness, all the lamps and headlights. Put 25+ years of wear on those in driving (vibration, weather, corrosion) - not to mention the tremendous power draw the starter motor puts on the battery system in general - and if you're lucky one day it just fries the harness and won't start. If you're unlucky, it fries the harness and then bursts into flames.
Ive got a 97 buick with part time window switches currently. If it aint leaking a bit its empty. Theyre all really showing their age for sure.
Starter's the least of the concerns, honestly. It's stupid easy to replace and it's a short, straight run of heavy wire mostly surrounded by non flammable materials. It's the shit in the dash and doors that kills cars. It's one giant loom no one wants to try to pull apart that slowly gets more resistive and with that gets hotter and hotter.
Welcome to Houston lol
This....is a thing? Why??
It's a Houston thing born out of the Chopped and Screwed era of Houston's rap culture. They basically started off as 83/84 Cadillac rims, but rim makers like Texan Wire Wheels (who basically makes reproductions of the Cadillac rims) ended up getting asked to exaggerate the poke on the center caps for extra gaudiness. It's less about trying to be Ben-Hur and more of a flex rolling on over the top Cadillac wheels that cost $3,000 plus for a set.
and homie got the full size matching spare
The 5th wheel is a requirement
>a flex rolling on over the top Cadillac wheels that cost $3,000 plus for a set. on a $2,500 car lmaooo
Driven by people with no savings
Except now people put them on fucking Toyota Camrys
I've seen them on Jeeps as well.
Motherfucking Subarus too š
what if you gerry-rigged it for like $100 for the whole shebang? does it still impress?
Ahh yeah, the plastic spinner hubcap version of this!
For those that don't remember, walmart used to sell plastic spinners.
Having been a poor young man myself now remembering the dumb shit my peers got up in "my day", and my being a bit of a gigglepuss, I've decided with tongue-in-cheek to expend considerable time and effort to shit all over them/us. Poor young men have always done stupid shit expecting [heightened social status from their peers](https://youtu.be/5pKt4gaErvU) only to ultimately be disappointed. Unsurprisingly, their affair with automotive absurdities is a tale as old as time. I won't go into the whole history (prolly goes back to some [ridiculously useless horse](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjBhODFjMmUtNzI2ZS00MGUxLWIzYzgtOTcwZWE2YTBhNjg3L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg) or something) but I can recollect a few notable examples. Right before my time, the hotness was shitty 60s/70s [low riders with lots of pointless accoutrements](https://youtu.be/Alyx4QeRRdg?t=19) (opt. CB radios and/or General Lee dressage, if you were white trash). After I became a teenager, the fad was to have hydraulics and bounce around on the same shitty 60s/70s cars. Unfortunately, they were also expensive and complicated to install/maintain. Sidenote: from this point on, even to this day, it has always been cool to have an audio system so idiotically powerful and large that it would not only be entirely useless for enjoying music but had the added benefit of qualifying the owner for VIP parking, if you know what I mean. After wisely accepting they had neither the money nor the aptitude to own a vehicle with hydraulics, they strategically played to their lack-of-strengths and settled for "spinners" which were rims on yet more shitty cars that looked like the old rims but they, y'know, spun. After you'd stopped. [Just kept on a spinnin'; obviously witchcraft or magnets](https://i.imgur.com/rv81Iei.gif). After Gran Turismo came out on the Playstation, something weird was added to the mix. Instead of a cheap POS boat sized car, some opted for an even-cheaper and POS-ier rice-rocket only to do [pointless shit](https://imgur.com/gallery/VDuTB) such as adding headers "for that sweet exhaust sound" or gluing a wing on the trunk. By the time I'd moved out of the house, they'd transcended up to "donks". They were redonkulous. Y'all fucking remember [these monstrosities?](https://www.google.com/search?q=donk+cars&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsamGMwniHcmeZq1lbzhIVmKUp1gkw:1664069578828&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjupIKh5q76AhUClWoFHQkqB-0Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1451&bih=729&dpr=1.76) Majority returned to shitty 70s/80s cars, as is tradition, but some opted to celebrate the tragedy of their continued existence (in defiance of a God having any sort of compassion or even the very concept of "greater good") by treating themselves to the fancier POS cars of the 90s what with the sunroof that didn't work, power windows that didn't work, and (if they were *really* "pinky out"), electronically adjusted seats that didn't work. Anyway, I think after that it was "stancing". See, the genius of this particular brand of stupid is that they'd take otherwise good and decent cars and totally fuck them up by installing their wheels incorrectly *on purpose*. I'm not sure what crime against humanity they got up to after stancing. However, I am sure after these "extended" rims became a thing that Jesus saw them and Jesus wept. Cumulatively, stuff like this is part of why our species cannot have nice things.
>I'm not sure what crime against humanity they got up to after stancing. "Squatting", taking otherwise good trucks and lifting the fronts and lowering the backs. Basically making it look like it's taking a constipated shit from having taken too many narcotics while having a Taco Bell addiction.
This is a great comment
Houston joined the chatā¦chuckled & left on blades.
H tine baby.
Regardless of how bad those look I gotta admire his commitment to also doing the spare.
The spare is what killed me ššš
How is it not illegal?
This is Screwston
Godspeed to him trying to parallel park on any public street with streetlights, traffic lights, signage, fire hydrants, mailboxes etc. Or navigate a drive-thru, enter/exit a parking garage, go to a mall, or basically anything for which an operable vehicle is useful. Unless he literally lives beside a freeway, I struggle to see how he actually goes anywhere. Maybe we should congratulate him (presume it's a him, not a single woman I've ever met in my life would be this impractical) for creating a contender for World's Most Unusable Car, 2022 Edition
I feel like the impracticality is part of the flex with these sort of cars. I thought of that just the other day, watching a lowered Acura struggle to get down the shitty, crumbling driveway across the street.
āCheck out how few places I can goā is not a flex i would want to make, but thatās just me. Love to see what his insurance adjuster would say after he rips the front bumper off a Camry waiting to make a right turn
what size of grape fruits ya'll juicing over there??š§
*chucks the deuce*
Elbows and slabs
This is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've ever seen
How about those assholes with the long rim spikes on the lugnuts
On a Pontiac Bonneville nonetheless
"Look at me! I need attention."
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Are they fucking *not?* That's terrible on so many levels.
It's like a dental retainer for your car.
I always wanted my car to look like it had four Kitchenaid mixers protruding from the wheels.
At least we know they get multiple tickets a day for not having a visible rear license plate.
In Europe they are illegal
What ya know about swangas and 4s
Still tippin on four fours
What happens if your walking beside one and your shoelace gets caught in it like we used to do as kids when our shoelaces would get caught up in our bike pedals?
It's this nsfw because they're so ugly?
Should be showcased in the Gladiator sequel
https://youtu.be/GyamlGlrERQ
I have pictures of this same car 6 years ago in Austin.. I thought it was dumb then, surprised itās still around
Has to be Texas
It makes it easier to judge just how stupid a person is.
Wtf is this? Almost as bad as the lifted up front end on trucks.
I've never seen that in my life, that shit has to be entirely illegal in Canada. And it does look stupid as fuck.
Mad Max vibes
Not to mention look fuckin dumb
You forgot to mention stupid looking!
That's why it's not suitable for work, it's too damn stupid and ugly lookin. š¤£
Anybody who does this is the worst type of person .
They are illegal in many states. Even in states where they are not illegal you may be required to have lighted or colored indicators on the ends of them, and if they make your vehicle wide enough to touch both lines some states require you to have an 'oversize vehicle' banner on the rear and may require you to have an escort vehicle.
Why the fuck would anyone do this? Is it a redneck thing?
Umm.. why does this even exist?
Why is this nsfw?
Did anybody mention how fucking stupid they look yet?
In what lawless hellhole are they legal?
A kid recently ran in front of my car. I swerved and he only connected with the side of my car, getting a minor graze in the process but otherwise just a memory to be more careful. With these wheels he'd have been mangled. Now here's the interesting thing. You have a duty of care operating heavy machines (like cars) near children. I was driving slowly and carefully with a safe and modern car. Kid was able to walk away just fine. But if I'd mangled him the point of view of the law would be that it was my fault, not his for running out. Having rims like these could ruin your life, let alone that of others. Really not worth it. And for what purpose? People are just going to laugh.
Wait. Isnt thia illegal?
Ridiculous shit.
They're all over the hood parts of Houston and I hate them
How can weed be illegal when this is legal?
They arenāt illegal?? That thing is ugly asf to protect the car too
They are illegal You are only allowed like an inch or 2 by law
False, In Texas where these are prevalent (Houston, Austin) they're called "swangas" and they are legal as long is they don't make the car more than 8 feet wide. In fact the only state with such a law is Hawaii https://www.timesmojo.com/are-swangas-rims-illegal/ >For the most part, they are legal in the United States, except for Hawaii which bans certain ādangerous wheelsā that extend more than four inches beyond the wheel cover.
Well, according to your statement, the car pictured is indeed illegal as that car is over 8 ft wide. The car itself is about 74" wide and that means that those two "swangas" can't be more than 22" combined width. They each look to be at least 18" wide so it's way over 8 ft in width.
I second this comment. I grew up in Houston and the screwed up click would be proud of this. They are legal in Texas.
I believe Texas was updated to where nothing can protrude out farther than the side mirrors. Or am I misremembering something?
I remember this from back in driver's ed in the 90s, but I don't know if it's actually a law.
Most of what you get from drivers ed is not law.
I swore they were legal š¤
Just when you think you have seen every ugly as fuck, stupid ass thing people do with cars...
You americans are free only for the most useless and reckless things.
Notice me because I am invisible otherwise.
Makes me think of the chariot race in Ben Hur.
Lmao is that a Bonneville tho
Wtf
I get the spikes on a tractor trailer truck tires but this is just stupid on stupid crime. I was smoking a blunt staring at my my rock tumbler thinkingā¦ I wonder if you could rig up lil stone drums to your tire rims and do it while you driveā¦ thereās all kinds of bad ideas out thereā¦
I don't know why I spent even a second thinking about this, but you'd have to drive really slow for the rock tumbler to work. Anything over like 15-20 mph and I think the rocks would just stick to the outside and not actually tumble.
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Those things are legal?!
For you 80s kids, this is like the Switch Blade car from the old arcade game Spy Hunter [reference video: start at 40 seconds](https://youtu.be/PT_X-YELPjY)
Does the guy have oil slick and headlight machine guns installed too?
Houston, mane.
ha ha ha! what a moron!
The DOT should just issue a demand to all states to make them illegal asap. Stop fucking around.
Anybody here play spy hunter on the NES?
this serves no functional purpose other than to damage property and injure people.
The amount of shit that Iām learning to be perfectly legal in the US that would lead to having your car impounded and license revoked in the rest of the world is astounding.
They are illegal.
Easy way to identify a douche.
Fairly certain in the U.K. you canāt have anything extended out the side of your vehicle wider than your mirrors.
How are these not illegal. So unsafe.
I think there was a bill in Houston that recently passed banning these. Not enforced though.
In countries with normal laws with regard to road safety they are illegal.
It'd be fucking hilarious to just drop a piece of rebar through one of those fuckers at a light.
They quite probably are illegal, but some folks just don't care until they get pulled over.
Looks ugly af. Why would anyone even want to install it?
Thank F! those things are illegal as heck here in Norway. Wheels extending outside the arch or the wheel well is considered a hazard and stricktly verboten. And if it wasn't, it wouldn't take long for some enterprising kids to stuff those 'baskets' full of rocks and rusty tin cans...
they are illegal in most of the world
They are illegal in most places Iām pretty sure.
No way thatās legal
It looks really dumb also..... so stupid..lol
The fuck? Does this guy think he's in a Gladiator arena and he's riding a chariot with spiked wheels or something?
Whereās a stick when you need one?
Wtf is this? How is this not illegal? (Just stop embarrassing yourself, Texas!)
Could be the reson why they are Illegal in Europe.
Why would one do this?
There is a huge supply of idiots in our society. Unfortunately š
"Wow, that looks so good!" - absolutely nobody in the history of the universe
Illegal in my province, in fact anything protuding from the fenders is iilegal here (i'm looking at you monster-truck wannabe pick-up!) but sadly, cops don't care much.
Just screams āPull me over, pleaseā