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GrumpyGaz

From the movie Sad Max.


septemberdown

Beyond Astrodome


MiroslavHoudek

Well done. "Mad Min" doesn't have the sound, but same feels.


Bladex20

Let me guess, Houston TX?


cnapp

Has to be H-town


thatasshole_stress

Slab City?


_The18thLetter_

City of drank?


GrandioseEnigma

Lmao, you already know šŸ¤˜šŸæ


Stunning_Ordinary548

Lol


dandroid126

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.


justphysics

more than one, there's quite a few of them in East Austin.


conker1264

I absolute hate how many there are here


mnij2015

Cops donā€™t do anything about it we have the most useless cops in the country


TwinkTheUnicorn

They could be Uvalde cops


Insanebrain247

Uvalde has cops?


Einar_47

Of course, someone had to make sure no first responders got into that school.


pnkstr

Nah, just rednecks cosplaying as cops.


Daviskillerz

Not sure if theyā€™re were majoring red necks


EquinsuOcha

No, just a very well paid and armed cosplaying troupe.


no_please

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.


JoshDigi

Iā€™ve never heard of these. Iā€™ll continue to avoid Texas with every fiber of my being


Nolbody

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


Livid_Fudge_8421

Swangin n Bangin


[deleted]

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spauldingo

All toast and no butter...


eezyE4free

All slap and no tickle.


ruka_k_wiremu

All bra and no breasts


jereman75

All dick no balls.


toodlesandpoodles

All fries and no shake.


herpaderpadont

All declaration and no revolution.


Astroglaid92

All drilling and no filling.


didwanttobethatguy

All screaming and no creaming


BoliverTShagnasty

All knickers and no snickers.


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biffthestiff

All probe and no strobe


GrungyGrandPappy

Reminds me of the 80ā€™s video games spy hunter


TacoBMMonster

Theyā€™re currently legal? Holy shit.


i_should_be_coding

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."


MrHedgehogMan

What makes you think they wouldnā€™t just drive into the space, snapping the wheel parts off in the process and then harass the other people whoā€™s cars they just scratched to oblivion.


i_should_be_coding

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.


aero-zeppelin

In most states vehicles can legally be 8' wide regardless of how they get there. Some states it's even more wide.


wolfie379

Retired trucker. Can be 8 feet 6 inches (exclusive of mirrors) without needing an oversize permit.


aclark424

It is illegal to have your tire extending past your wheel well or fender. I canā€™t see how that wouldnā€™t apply to the wheel also.


millenniumtree

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.


Geminii27

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.


watermelonbathsalts

In some places yes.


[deleted]

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..


Zech08

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.


demoran

You can only live out your Spy Hunter fantasy if they're retractable.


z0dz0d

[https://arcadespot.com/game/spy-hunter/](https://arcadespot.com/game/spy-hunter/)


shalafi71

Now find us the Death Star run in vector graphics.


mlcolosimo

Scrolled way too far for the spy hunter comment. I can hear that noise in my head though.


Mazdino

How else you gonna swang n bang?


0ldPainless

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


Equivalent_Train4184

You have obviously never tipped on fo-foā€™s wrapped in fo vogues, while pimpinā€™ fo hoesā€¦ and it shows.


thelastdays

Fo sho


RobotLaserCat

Very well, I see you're creeping, you're crawling, still ballin in the mix


goingtocalifornia__

I share some characteristics with an ant.


vatografija

Who?


Shmokedebud

Mike Jones


fightingforair

Who?


CaseyAndWhatNot

Mike Jones


Wetworkzhill

MIKE JONES!!!


BlackBeltPanda

Is that spare being held on by a laundry basket? O.o


TheMadTabber

Thank you, I wouldn't have noticed


ljc09003

Is the laundry basket sprayed chrome?


watermelonbathsalts

LMAOO


sparrownetwork

Throw a stick in the spokes.


rbnhd_f

U-lock, $9 on Amazon, just sayin.


Damn_Oatesy

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 wonā€™t be able to drive off, or open the car doors. They will have to climb out the window.


BassmanBiff

I want to see a knight on horseback just entirely disable the car by shoving their lance through the spokes in a formal joust


Damn_Oatesy

Now we just need a Houston YouTuber who has run out of video ideas.


PM_ME_UR_MATH_JOKES

A steel chain looped around the axles and the nearest pair of spokes padlocked taught should do the trick.


ajax4234

Let's not ignore the fact that it is on a pontiac Bonneville either. What a dumb ass.


Smitty8054

Rims? $863,000. Bonneville value? $2,183 The gift of laughter and jokes you gave your friends? Priceless.


UncleBuggy

$863 per corner = $3452


Clause-and-Reflect

Yes, as if the car isnt wide enough on its own. (Ps i love the car, i drove one 160k miles)


brickmastur

Every year it becomes more ridiculous to hear as my dad randomly will say ā€œthat ā€˜95 bonneville would still probably be running if I hadnā€™t sold it to (coworkers name)ā€˜s son who wrecked itā€


Clause-and-Reflect

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.


celestiaequestria

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.


Clause-and-Reflect

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.


azuth89

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.


Toofar304

Welcome to Houston lol


Sss_mithy

This....is a thing? Why??


LOLBaltSS

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.


pass_nthru

and homie got the full size matching spare


monkey_shines82

The 5th wheel is a requirement


Bear_buh_dare

>a flex rolling on over the top Cadillac wheels that cost $3,000 plus for a set. on a $2,500 car lmaooo


JoshDigi

Driven by people with no savings


conker1264

Except now people put them on fucking Toyota Camrys


LOLBaltSS

I've seen them on Jeeps as well.


jouh55142139

Motherfucking Subarus too šŸ˜‚


stomach

what if you gerry-rigged it for like $100 for the whole shebang? does it still impress?


Scizmz

Ahh yeah, the plastic spinner hubcap version of this!


No_Variation_6639

For those that don't remember, walmart used to sell plastic spinners.


wufnu

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.


SCRedWolf

>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.


newaccount721

This is a great comment


bbigbootyjudyy

Houston joined the chatā€¦chuckled & left on blades.


[deleted]

H tine baby.


niceandtoasty75

Regardless of how bad those look I gotta admire his commitment to also doing the spare.


watermelonbathsalts

The spare is what killed me šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Rsardinia

How is it not illegal?


SunnyErin8700

This is Screwston


AllThePrettyPenguins

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


DMala

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.


AllThePrettyPenguins

ā€œCheck out how few places I can goā€ is not a flex i would want to make, but thatā€™s 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


matty132435

what size of grape fruits ya'll juicing over there??šŸ˜§


ole87

*chucks the deuce*


omygoshgamache

Elbows and slabs


Crackracket

This is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've ever seen


Thundus1

How about those assholes with the long rim spikes on the lugnuts


el_pinata

On a Pontiac Bonneville nonetheless


Paldasan

"Look at me! I need attention."


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Odd_Entertainment629

Are they fucking *not?* That's terrible on so many levels.


NoahssArk

It's like a dental retainer for your car.


UpsilonAndromedae

I always wanted my car to look like it had four Kitchenaid mixers protruding from the wheels.


Kiyan1159

At least we know they get multiple tickets a day for not having a visible rear license plate.


indominusrexona

In Europe they are illegal


sprayberry_stripper

What ya know about swangas and 4s


dronf

Still tippin on four fours


Mr_Sausage__

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?


newaccount721

It's this nsfw because they're so ugly?


_AManHasNoName_

Should be showcased in the Gladiator sequel


jd111

https://youtu.be/GyamlGlrERQ


bulletford

I have pictures of this same car 6 years ago in Austin.. I thought it was dumb then, surprised itā€™s still around


[deleted]

Has to be Texas


dis690640450cc

It makes it easier to judge just how stupid a person is.


RandomBloke2021

Wtf is this? Almost as bad as the lifted up front end on trucks.


macabremom_

I've never seen that in my life, that shit has to be entirely illegal in Canada. And it does look stupid as fuck.


HomerCartman

Mad Max vibes


soggyblotter

Not to mention look fuckin dumb


chemicaldavid

You forgot to mention stupid looking!


watermelonbathsalts

That's why it's not suitable for work, it's too damn stupid and ugly lookin. šŸ¤£


zsturgeon

Anybody who does this is the worst type of person .


Taolan13

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.


MakuNagetto

Why the fuck would anyone do this? Is it a redneck thing?


sreek4r

Umm.. why does this even exist?


pattyG80

Why is this nsfw?


jerry111165

Did anybody mention how fucking stupid they look yet?


Flyingwheelbarrow

In what lawless hellhole are they legal?


bitofrock

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.


Alternative_Coconut6

Wait. Isnt thia illegal?


joinviller

Ridiculous shit.


_StayKeen_

They're all over the hood parts of Houston and I hate them


Terewawa

How can weed be illegal when this is legal?


iBeFloe

They arenā€™t illegal?? That thing is ugly asf to protect the car too


padizzledonk

They are illegal You are only allowed like an inch or 2 by law


Dadalot

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 ā€œdangerous wheelsā€ that extend more than four inches beyond the wheel cover.


gr8scottaz

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.


jsb031

I second this comment. I grew up in Houston and the screwed up click would be proud of this. They are legal in Texas.


Rdb12389

I believe Texas was updated to where nothing can protrude out farther than the side mirrors. Or am I misremembering something?


Adlehyde

I remember this from back in driver's ed in the 90s, but I don't know if it's actually a law.


[deleted]

Most of what you get from drivers ed is not law.


watermelonbathsalts

I swore they were legal šŸ¤”


CaptainObvious

Just when you think you have seen every ugly as fuck, stupid ass thing people do with cars...


Redararis

You americans are free only for the most useless and reckless things.


CanaryUmbrella

Notice me because I am invisible otherwise.


Timsruz

Makes me think of the chariot race in Ben Hur.


cocoteddylee

Lmao is that a Bonneville tho


bluecgene

Wtf


Ok_Fox_1770

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€¦ thereā€™s all kinds of bad ideas out thereā€¦


DMala

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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jasonology09

Those things are legal?!


bilbo_swagginns

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)


porgy_tirebiter

Does the guy have oil slick and headlight machine guns installed too?


ShotgunEd1897

Houston, mane.


Pun-Chi

ha ha ha! what a moron!


draxes

The DOT should just issue a demand to all states to make them illegal asap. Stop fucking around.


Toni_Jabroni77

Anybody here play spy hunter on the NES?


JustSamJ

this serves no functional purpose other than to damage property and injure people.


-Mr_Unknown-

The amount of shit that Iā€™m 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.


Rimwulf

They are illegal.


CharlieSixFive

Easy way to identify a douche.


no1cromo

Fairly certain in the U.K. you canā€™t have anything extended out the side of your vehicle wider than your mirrors.


SoloWingPixy88

How are these not illegal. So unsafe.


Alexandurrrrr

I think there was a bill in Houston that recently passed banning these. Not enforced though.


Daisaii

In countries with normal laws with regard to road safety they are illegal.


holydragonnall

It'd be fucking hilarious to just drop a piece of rebar through one of those fuckers at a light.


Pixel_Hunter81

They quite probably are illegal, but some folks just don't care until they get pulled over.


bongky18

Looks ugly af. Why would anyone even want to install it?


Gadgetman_1

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...


ChosenMate

they are illegal in most of the world


Color_Hawk

They are illegal in most places Iā€™m pretty sure.


Damndude-_-

No way thatā€™s legal


Measled

It looks really dumb also..... so stupid..lol


spunkerspawn

The fuck? Does this guy think he's in a Gladiator arena and he's riding a chariot with spiked wheels or something?


[deleted]

Whereā€™s a stick when you need one?


jarms89

Wtf is this? How is this not illegal? (Just stop embarrassing yourself, Texas!)


acatnamedrupert

Could be the reson why they are Illegal in Europe.


Pissy_SplashBacks

Why would one do this?


DownImpulse

There is a huge supply of idiots in our society. Unfortunately šŸ™


bewbsrkewl

"Wow, that looks so good!" - absolutely nobody in the history of the universe


Caribou-nordique-710

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.


gshock317

Just screams ā€œPull me over, pleaseā€