Whos a baller and who thinks their a baller. O.G. Wheel Thread...

[AZhitman]

Hope no one ever refers to me as a "baller".

In that "baller" is ghetto street slang deriving from one who plays basketball, I certainly don't fit the bill.

Let's keep in mind, driving a car that's worth $2000 - $12000 does NOT make one a "baller", regardless of the wheels one chooses.

[Louis Cyphier]

going going gone.

just wanted to show you guys some different wheel styles, ones you might not have seen. didnt want to start a argument.

BTw, topic title is a joke, or was meant to be one.

[jamied311]

Let's keep in mind, driving a car that's worth $2000 - $12000 does NOT make one a "baller", regardless of the wheels one chooses.

That deserves an Amen!



^Not A Baller...
Modified by jamied311 at 10:51 AM 1/4/2006

[AZhitman]

MORE WHEELS!

LS, I loved my Rikens and my Ronals. Wish I hadn't sold them...

[G50 Q]

I reviewed your posting history.

WOW, glad I could make such an impression on your life.

[Louis Cyphier]

baller is a joke term thrown around. im a baller becuase my watch matches the wood interior on my car...

[AZhitman]

SNAP!

What the hell is that? That's kickass!

[Louis Cyphier]

Nixon Rotolog. Available on now baller salaries even!

$210 Full Retail.

[AZhitman]

VERY "70's Pimp".

Not VIP.

[HashiriyaS14]

Good gawd those Schmidt TH-lines are sexy....

They look like SSR Auswitch's, but possibly even cooler, and in car fitment!

Do they come in 4x114.3?

[DrewQ45]

Hope no one ever refers to me as a "baller".

In that "baller" is ghetto street slang deriving from one who plays basketball, I certainly don't fit the bill.

Let's keep in mind, driving a car that's worth $2000 - $12000 does NOT make one a "baller", regardless of the wheels one chooses.

A "baller" has nothing to do with basketball... it describes someone living a high-rolling/high-profile lifestyle...whether the means to do so exist or not.

BTW, I appreciate the info put forth in this thread... might use some of it next time I'm shopping for wheels...only thing is that I certainly won't be spending thousands. Spent 500 for the set of konigs you see here way back when and that was with new tires...

[Louis Cyphier]

Good gawd those Schmidt TH-lines are sexy....

They look like SSR Auswitch's, but possibly even cooler, and in car fitment!

Do they come in 4x114.3?

schmidts come in anything. tuning zubehor can get em, tell Matt Crooke i told ya to call (Corey)

[squeefoo]

I've never understood why people use their first several posts on a new forum to tell the others how ignorant they are. It seems an odd way to join - they don't usually appreciate it.

Amen!!

its about alternate viewpoints. i was hoping to spread some different though processes here since "wheels" arent you guy's forte. theres just a major difference between this scene(the us Q45 forum), and my euro background where wheels often exceed the cost of the car

...and in the various ghettoes around this country, so they're actually Europeans ???

something doesnt have to fit into the nice little categories of "euro, VIP, JDM, hotrod" etc. to be cool, it can actually borrow influences from everywhere.

...that's quite a concept, I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that. Maybe you should copyright it !

A "baller" has nothing to do with basketball... it describes someone living a high-rolling/high-profile lifestyle...whether the means to do so exist or not.

Thanks Drew, I thank you for actually defining that. I wasted my time reading this thread just to find out what it was...... so that's what Louis is referring to himself as...

Sorry to be so unfashionable....

[Louis Cyphier]

nice post dude

hey, when you finally decide to pull your head out of your own ***, let me know, i'd like to keep a end table and 30gal. air compressor up there.

[squeefoo]

Theoretical landscape:This research investigates the role of automotive wheels (rims) with psychology and neuroscience. This investigation of rims is of scientific interest in terms of self-concept, social appraisal and social judgment, and uses an understanding of the impact of design on the user and the display and selection process. It was hypothesised that this work would provide insight into the effects rims have on the self-concept from an art and design perspective whilst informing the psychological and neurological areas.

There is an arguable case that a theory of the self-concept is central to any theory of psychology. Thus parties as diverse as the media, psychologists and neurologists have recently taken an interest in the self-concept application of excessive rim applications. Markus and Wurf (1987) claim that internal self-representations are a shifting and changeable verbalised process of the social self, i.e. possible selves. Rims are intimately associated with the psychical self-image and therefore with the self-concept. Buying and installing rims renews or reinforces recognisably individual self-concepts (both visually and verbally encoded) to create these possible selves, i.e. actual, ideal or ought selves (Markus and Nurius 1986). Young (1994) suggests that we use a process of 'theatrical imagining' when contemplating rims (for instance in a shop) which reconstructs or maintains our self-concept, or possible selves through a reflection process.Buying and installing rims have also been shown to express one's personality (Conner, Peters and Nagasawa 1975). Costa and McCrae (1985) developed a five factor model (NEOAC) to demonstrate why people behave differently. This includes Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. This research focuses on the reflective and expressive elements of personality but also how one can regulate their personality by buying and installing rims. Boultwood and Jerrard (2000) see the automotive body as an area of internal self verses cultural and social conflict and interaction that we seek to resolve and control through rims in conjuction with the automotive body.

In a social context, contributing to a self and automotive image concept, positively or negatively effects, controls and regulates our moods, emotions (Kwon 1991), and personality where we retrieve autobiographical memories during the process. Our "self-automotive concept" allows us to experiment with our identities, exploring time, place, people and roles during the initial search, the selection, and then actual use and display of the rims. Emphatic associations are created, 'it is as though the buying and installing [of our rims] were indeed a natural extension of the body or even of the soul' (Bell 1976) - like a second skin or 'epidermal self-awareness' as applied through superficial means -such as excessive or gaudy application of automotive rims (Eco 1986).

It is of the authors opinion that the use and display of excessive rims is a sign of innate and uncontrolled regressive hysterical narcissism.

[Louis Cyphier]

wow, you can quote.

did you find that paper up in your *** as well?

[squeefoo]

wow, you can quote.

Why yes I can...

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there." -Eric Hoffer

did you find that paper up in your *** as well?

Aren't you the witty one! You are nothing more than a gargantuan embarrassment around the base of which lesser embarrassments gather to worship.

Don't let your palms get hairy!

[Louis Cyphier]

seriously, there must be like a whole community up there, there's scholars, theologians, probably a mathematition or two as well.

Do you jot all these witty little bits down and keep them steadfast by your monitor in hopes that at some point in time/space youll be able to use them?

seriously thanks for stopping by. On most boards you're called a troll, maybe here youre something more grandoise.

[AZhitman]

LOL, you two knock it off - I'm cracking up here.

Louis, give squee a hand with his transmission swap, wouldja?

And pick out a nice set of rims for his Q while you're at it....

[nchopp]

Hey guys, I think you must be lost. The 240 forum is over there. This is the Q45 forum.

[Jesda]

"Wanna be a -- baller, shot callerTwenty inch blades -- on the ImpalaA caller gettin laid tonightSwisher rolled tight, gotta spray my iceI hit the HIIIGHWAY, making money the FLYYYY WAYBut there's got to be a BETT-ER WAYY!A better way, better way, YEAH-AHHHH"

[I did not read any of this thread. I wish you all a happy 2006!]

[squeefoo]

Access Level Normal User Permission Level ISP Full Name Alladin Sarsipius Sulamanagic Jackson III Email Address [email protected] Age 31 Home Page View Car 1999 Q45 Interests Beers, Steers and Queers Occupation graphic designer

...no wonder he's so preoccupied with a$$ -holes...

EEeeewwwwwww <urp>

[Falkdesigns]

I thought this was an excellent statement, and so far, I like this guy

something doesnt have to fit into the nice little categories of "euro, VIP, JDM, hotrod" etc. to be cool, it can actually borrow influences from everywhere.

that sums up my belief in car modding precisely.

[Rex]

I think this thread has go WAYYYY off topic. Let's try to get back to the original point ... sharing wheel history and information. If not, expect most if not all of it to go away .

[Falkdesigns]

Some people seemed to get upset with the fact he posted Euro cars, while I see it as just an excellent wheel post, and anyone is free to add some O.G. wheel pics to the thread. I'll look for some of my old favorites to post up.

[Rex]

Some people seemed to get upset with the fact he posted Euro cars, while I see it as just an excellent wheel post, and anyone is free to add some O.G. wheel pics to the thread. I'll look for some of my old favorites to post up.

And if the thread stayed on that topic, all would be good ... and informative.

[Falkdesigns]

The "original" mono-block wheel, at least from what I recall. Back in the days of Miami Vice, I got hooked on the idea of a big, fast, sporty looking 4 door car. All the king-pins we're rocking these obnoxious colored (hey, it was the 80's!) Benz's with bitchin wheels, body kit's and tint and I loved it. The Mercedes AMG "Hammer" was my earliest 4 door love.





And probably one of my all time favorite classic wheels, the Panasport. I had 13x7 and 13x8's on my 1st gen ITS RX-7, it was just so fitting with the cars style and time frame.

[G50 Q]

I thought this was an excellent statement, and so far, I like this guy

that sums up my belief in car modding precisely.

If that is true, then why do you try so hard to convince everyone your car is VIP?

[AZhitman]

Alladin Sarsipius Sulamanagic Jackson III

That's RECALCULUS!!!! (Name the song for an e-cookie!)

[Falkdesigns]

If that is true, then why do you try so hard to convince everyone your car is VIP?

Why do you care?

Have you ever opened your eyes and looked through a single copy of VIP Car or VIP Style or afEXE? Because you would clearly see the similarities between my Y33 and other Y33's that are in those various magazines if you ever had, I sure as hell do. There are dozens and dozens and dozens of cars in all three of these magazines with NOTHING more than drop, and wheels. And I have done a lot more than just drop and wheels. I can guarantee there are dozens of cars in these magazines that you would say are NOT VIP based on YOUR standards, but you are not the magazine publisher now are you? I personally own at least two dozen copies of the various VIP and EXE magazines so I know what I see, my eyes do not lie to me. As I've said before, I've seen what VIP is in Japan (as a fan of VIP), and I KNOW my car fit's the flow and form. So blow me.

Here's some nice little pic's for you, but you probably don't consider ANY them VIP:



If my wheels were all silver, they'd be pretty similar to this:



My car is lower than this for God's sake!!! But I'm sure that even though it's IN VIP Car magazine, to you it's "not in any way VIP"

Here's a Celsior I snapped in Japan, nothing but slight drop and wheels, Euroline DH - which btw look just like PRIME wheels that I saw on a 1985 Toyota Corolla last week, forgot about the old school, cheap *** PRIME's.



And finally, a nice subtle, Toyota Crown Athlete I shot over there:

Have fun wasting your breath trying to convince me and everyone else that my car "is in no way VIP styled", compared to your VIP S14 Q45 my car is 50X more VIP styled. Just cause you have a set of WORK's don't mean jack. It's the complete package, I still want a front lip - after I move to a place that doesn't already scrape the stock lip, exhaust and DVD system. After that, there is nothing more for me to do to this car but keep it as pristine as it is.