Lohnes and I are currently in the middle of a bitter and cold war of the station wagons, and so far every shot has been, in one way or another, a good one. A low-mileage clamshell Pontiac, two Caddy wagons, and a big-block Country Squire are all the kinds of wagons that most BangShifters can get behind. Then Charles Wickam, BangShift Photo Extraordinare, decided to fire a volley in this war. If Brian and I are closing in on each other with artillery, Wickam’s first shot missed the both of us and just blew up an orphanage and a Build-A-Bear factory at the same time.
Let’s get this out of the way right now: 30″ wheels on anything that isn’t a Monster Truck or a Conestoga wagon being pulled by oxen are just downright idiotic, regardless of what they were bolted to. In this case, the wheels in question were bolted to an otherwise decently clean 1993 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon. The car is in New York, so you’ll have to forgive the one small section of rust in the rear wheel well, but overall this is still a pretty nice LT-1 powered B-body wagon.
The LT-1 doesn’t appear to have any modifications other than the exhaust, so even if it’s the 260hp model, we’ll wager a guess that the running gear is suffering with the unsprung weight of the wheels. At least this Caprice has better ground clearance than a Dodge Ram…that should make troubleshooting under the car a breeze. $6750 takes the car home, and there is no word on if the price can be cut in half if you leave the wheels and just take the car.
Craigslist Link: 1993 Chevrolet Caprice Station Wagon on 30″ Wheels
No. Just plain no.
goddamn I HATE big wheels….. they remind me of when you were a kid and you’d get Hot Wheels/ matchbox etc. type cars that, lets face it, triggered many of our earliest car cravings. For the most part those early ones actually looked like scale versions of the real thing – right up to the point that the manufacturers started introducing oversize wheels that just looked stupid, wrong scale and just totally out of place. That’s what THESE look like….
Blew up a orphanage and build a bear factory ….. BAH HA HA HA !!!!
in ONE shot Charles! That is skill
$6750 takes the car home, and there is no word on if the price can be cut in half if you leave the wheels and just take the car.
Leave the car where it sits very long unattended and the wheels will be gone anyway.
I thought they tore that wall down over there in Berlin.
No LT1s in B-body wagons until ’94. This one still has the TBI 350.
I’m sorry, but it’s a $2K car at best. Putting ridiculous wheels that probably cost a ridiculous amount on a two thousand dollar car does not make said vehicle worth a ridiculous amount of money.
oh those zany ethnics!
That’s no LT-1, that’s a L05… come on, I’m not even a Chevy gai. LT-1 wasn’t available until ’94 anyways. Just look at the intake, that’s just a basic TBI setup.
As Iv’e said before its always Chevys that become barfmobiles – I’ll ignore that fugly Mustang – and this is no exception.
What he should have done is put on 10 inch wheels off an early Mini that would have looked even more stupid!
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Darn chunks over my laptop again.
Curse you, General Motors!
And now we go from the mostly bad to the very worst in the Battle of the Wagons blog : from the mundane to the profane ; from the commonplace to the ludicrous : from boring to the absurd ; from the inane to vulgarity . All in the space of what ? A week ?
And the winner is ?
Nobody . Especially – Us !
AH NO! I mean F-NO!!!
If it was an LT1 car maybe you can save it but an LO5 is just a good parts car.
How much could you sell the clown wheels for? I’m betting some idiot would pay enough to recoup almost all the price of the car. Then the question becomes, what did they have to hack up to put those on there?
I find it a bit funny that a guy who drives strike that, projackstands a Mirada would tell us what is or is not taste.
I don’t hate it.