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What's this about the wheel centers that stay upright while moving?

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Old 11-19-2002, 11:38 PM
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Post What's this about the wheel centers that stay upright while moving?

Is this for real?

Does it look tasteful?

Can I get the 411 online?
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Here ya go...

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neat! I wonder how quickly the bearing would wear out running considerable negative camber?
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ummmm...are you going to drive next to a mirror all day so you can see them staying upright? Are you going to mount a camera over the wheel wells too?
These things are cute but pointless.
imho....
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Gasm,
He is going to put them on, and then when he is taking a left turn stick his head out the window to see what they look like.

Or he will have passenger do the same during right turns.

Picture that on a nice rural tree lined road!
Old 11-20-2002, 01:26 PM
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In Toronto, some taxi companies put no-turn pizza ads on their wheels. Just a big pizza with the company name. That's the best application.

These look tastey, but no tasteful.
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I think they're surreal, yo!
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I have seen a couple of sets of these centercaps. they are extremely well made. The crests are slightly larger than the standard center cap crests however. The other downside is that they are a bit pricey as well.
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As I have said before, those are the last things I would ever put on my car.
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These are Ralph's (Boothe) caps. He's always at every Porsche event/ swap meet here in southern California. He's an **** machinist and basic old codger. You can talk to him for 2 hours on trivial design issues with this and that on a 911. The perfect gucci-weenie accessory for the LA crowd. "What, you dont have self-centering hub centers! Why are you slummin' it?"
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But is it... rice? Just the thing to go with the ground effects package/fart can muffler. On the other hand, if someone really likes them--hey it's their car.
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can't be much worse than painting the centercaps, or (gasp) having the functionless centercaps at all!
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Don't be so hard on Ralph Boothe. Heck even the factory used his spacers on the 993 c2s. He is one heck of a machinist and when I met him at the Pamona swap meet he realy knew his stuff. The quality of his craftmanship is next to none. I really enjoyed talking to him and his wife at the swap meet.



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