Want to go "Retro" with small thin tires and chrome hubcaps (aka 1950's look)

[gaffo]

and maybe whitewalls if I can find.

hubcaps like here:

http://www.go-kat-go.com/smoothiehubcap.html


Question is - I like a good handling car and have pre-ordered TRD shocks, springs and swaybar. Will running on shimpy tires shoot myself in the foot in the handly department even with all the stiff suspension stuff added to the car. Used to drive a TR-7 Triumph and a Ford Fiesta so I know about "firm" driving cars ;-).

I like the tiny tire/ old school look however. ;-).

thanks for any input!

[spkrman]

and maybe whitewalls if I can find.

hubcaps like here:

http://www.go-kat-go.com/smoothiehubcap.html


Question is - I like a good handling car and have pre-ordered TRD shocks, springs and swaybar. Will running on shimpy tires shoot myself in the foot in the handly department even with all the stiff suspension stuff added to the car. Used to drive a TR-7 Triumph and a Ford Fiesta so I know about "firm" driving cars ;-).

I like the tiny tire/ old school look however. ;-).

thanks for any input!

gotta do a nice wide tire! The stockers are junk.

[sdmf]

heres a link to my yaris with wantanabe style rims
http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4761

[Black Yaris]

Oh no... please don't

[hasher22]

Cool...looks like an unrolled condom

[churp]

Rat rod people don't seem to mind the skimpy tires....braking and handling will suffer a little, but gas milage could improve. Coker tire carries all sizes of wide whitewalls. I'm slowly heading this way myself...baby moons w/beauty rings, and if I go with the wide whites I'm staying with at least the stock tread width. Another site carries the same caps as you show...and pictures on pt cruisers etc. to give you an idea how they look on a car (search the other threads).

:headbang:

[boris13]

I like the retro look. I'm thinking of grafting a set of tailfins from a '57 Plymouth onto my liftback.

:eek: :w00t:

[gaffo]

ya, old school - thats probably why I like the mini-cooper's looks - and the original (and the old Honda600's) more so. like old tube wood radios also,and oldtime radiodramas.............support "freeradio" ;-).

Looking into figuring out how to install a tow hitch for my "retro" Honda Mini-Trial motorcycle clone (Chinese Lifan "Trail Ryder" - can't afford the real 1960's Honda, they are getting to be collectables). "Castrex" has one on his avatar pict.


Of course I have to get my car first!!

Seems if you want a STANDARD HATCHBACK WITH POWER WINDOWS and live in the United States one must sacrifice one's firstborn and them maybe in a year or so you might get a car!............hopefully the Black one will arrive by November!

If you don't want power or no hatch or no standard tranny - well, walk on down the street and buy that automatic yaris sedan!!!

Guess I'm living in the one Nation that makes in impossible to buy a manual transmission hatch!!!

ugh!