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American Racing Custom Wheels Make Your Automobile Look Legitimate For Racing
American Racing custom wheels is an object lesson in how to build a great American business. In the early 1950's a new breed of car enthusiast was busy being born in California. Half the population still lived in the country and underground car racing meant dirt roads and out of the way places. But in the growing metropolises of California, kids looking to test themselves against other drivers created a race that lasted from one traffic light to the next and drag racing was born. Get American Racing Car Custom Wheels.
Cars were customized in home garages to perform in ways that original equipment manufacturers never intended. Machines took on mutated shapes that ranged from the muscular profile of a chopped Mercury to the spidery efficiency of the early dragsters. In 1956 three of those early innovators joined forces to design and build after-market car wheels for street racing.
Romeo Palamides and partner Jim Ellison designed and built dragsters, using a San Francisco machine shop as home base. When Romeo, the driver of the duo, started using the magnesium wheels he and Ellison had built for their dragster word of the wheels' high strength-to-weight ratio quickly spread.
Demand for the wheels grew until the partners decided there was enough demand to justify a full blown after-market wheel business. Romeo and Jim, with engineer Tom Griffith founded American Racing Equipment. American Racing custom wheels broke into the mainstream in the early sixties with the introduction of the five-spoke American Racing 'Torq Thrust' wheel. The look of the wheel was attractive to non-racers, while the high performance was a hit with racers.
In 1962 Griffith created the most famous after-market wheel in automotive history, the Torq Thrust. His parabolic tapered 5-spoke design broke with everything that had gone before and broke with the semi solid wheels that were the main line of pursuit of other automotive wheel design.
American Racing custom wheels have since ascended into that pantheon where a product becomes a symbol for a life style: think Harley, Blackberry or Royal Dolton. Certain American Racing wheels are prized by collectors - most especially early Sixties Torq Thrust. Well, maybe not m-o-s-t especially. The absolute most valuable American Racing wheel is a broken Vector model owned by a collector in Sylmar, California, according to the American Racing website.
American Racing custom wheels have become pop culture icons. They have evolved with the changes in car tastes and styles over the years and continue to lead the after-market car wheel segment as they have for over half of a century.
American Racing Vehicle Custom Wheels are familiar to people all around the world through the use of the American Racing Car Custom Wheels on cars that feature prominently film and television. From the quintessential 60's car race movie Bullit, to the General Lee from the 70's TV hit the Dukes of Hazzard, to the 90's Die Harder with a Vengeance to the 21st century blockbuster the Fast and Furious and Transformers, American Racing custom wheels are an essential part of the look of American culture.
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