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Originally Posted by Christ
I don't have smooth wheels yet, for reasons not discussed here, but I did notice that on one of the pave roads I often travel, there is a family who has a blue GM HHR parked in the driveway... and instead of the hideous chrome so-bright-they-make-you-want-to-scratch-your-eyes-out wheels, they just have simple moon caps... Old school, brushed steel, moon caps.
I'm not sure if they did this for a renaissance movement back to a simpler time in automotive history, or if they even know they could be getting an MPG improvement from it, but I do intend to see them in public sometime and find out what's up w/ the moons...
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Since the HHR is kind of like Chevy's answer to the PT Cruiser, I think the racing disks are "appropriate" for that car.
One of the reasons I got a Saturn SC2 back in 1997 was that I "saw" that the design lent itself to racing disks, which I used to call Baby Moons :
This was in my pre-ecomodding years. I just did it for looks (I got a ton of moon-eyed looks). But, because they were snap-on to my steel rim, the front driver's wheel had the nasty habit of popping off when it hit potholes. Very expen$ive vanity mod that I de-implemented after a time. The real solution would have been to install the real thing, screw-in racing disks like these :
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