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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 06:57 PM
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Which color GTA wheels?

Hello everyone. Im thinking about painting my GTA wheels this winter. The car in the photos isnt mine, but mine looks exactly like it. Currently they are just gold. I did a quick photoshop to get three colors, original pic was black so the gold one is a tad off - but close. Which do you like the best?

-Gold


-Black


-Silver
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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 07:27 PM
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....Black....................................................................
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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 08:42 PM
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Black gold only looks good on white cars imo and the silver is just flat out ugly
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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 10:35 PM
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As long as you keep the polished lip, go with black.
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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 10:38 PM
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well I'm gonna hop on the band wagon and go with black as well. I've always hated the gta wheels unless there black, the black ones look great.
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Old Nov 5, 2005 | 11:13 PM
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yea!! black is way better. i just put my black ones on and it makes the car look way better
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 05:05 AM
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i also have a black trans am... and painted my GTA wheels silver (until i could afford rims). it didn't look good... i say definitely go with black.
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 05:19 AM
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Black..
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 05:41 AM
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black or get the wheels chromed.
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 06:35 AM
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Black, no question!
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 10:20 AM
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I agree with the masses!
Go Black!

George
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 01:43 PM
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Something NOONE ever notes that should be noted
BLACK LOOKS LIKE CRAP IF THE BRAKES ARE CRAP

if you have rusty brown crappy looking rotars and aged calipers then they are gonna look stupid...plus even with that stuff looking nice black rims take away the detail in the gta wheels...outside of 5 or 10 ft no one is gonna even be able to tell what kinda of pattern or intracacy the wheels have other than you have a polished lip...sorry to me that doesnt look good

Go with Gold or different rims that have more of the brakes showing and paint them black...

black rims have become a "trend" its not unique anymore and everyones doing it and quite frankly gta rims are special rims that should remain gold IMO
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 03:34 PM
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I have the same car with the same color rims...Black with the polished lip is amazing.
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 05:40 PM
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definantly black. hell, i have a z and i still want black gtas.
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Old Nov 6, 2005 | 11:53 PM
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I just put these on last week ...the car looks better with'em
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 07:20 AM
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black with polished lip
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 07:36 AM
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gold looks alright on black cars but black with black looks hot as hell i think gold looks good with red and white
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Old Nov 7, 2005 | 10:26 AM
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Gold. It highlights the "GTA" on the fender wells nicely.



Then again, I did like the silver a lot too:



There really isn't a bad choice.
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