94-14 Mustang SVE Drag Wheels

[5.0Shocker]

Can find the drag wheels on Latemodels website anymore?

yep, cant see them anymore on the site. never caught the price.

Yeah are these avail?

 

[lindertw]

crap - I knew I should've called in my order yesterday...

 

[BAKnBLK2010]

Just looked for them also. They are gone on the website, I hope RaceStar didn't put an end to these wheels with the threat of litigation.....

 

[Jarrod@latemodelresto]

Ill post more info as I get it. We did pull them down for the time being.

 

[GallopingFord]

This is awesome. Once I get everything else setup with my ride I'll probably get a set.

 

[DeepImpactPony]

Unreal! I had them saved in the shopping cart to place order on Monday, now they removed them! Arggrr! I sure hope this is only temporary!

 

[tmariano]

No kidding, I race this Friday night... looks like its going to be street tires..??

 

[tjm73]

Ill post more info as I get it. We did pull them down for the time being.

Why did you have to pull them down?

 

[weather man]

Why did you have to pull them down?

Everyone got lawyered up.

 

[tjm73]

Is that known for sure?

 

[weather man]

Ill post more info as I get it. We did pull them down for the time being.

Is that known for sure?

They didn't pull them down for fun. Costs money to sit on inventory.

EDIT: I suppose they could have instantly sold out?

 

[Gabe]

They didn't pull them down for fun. Costs money to sit on inventory.

EDIT: I suppose they could have instantly sold out?

 

[tjm73]

They didn't pull them down for fun. Costs money to sit on inventory.

EDIT: I suppose they could have instantly sold out?

I understand the implication, but wondered if anyone really knew what the real story was/is.

 

[Quade]

Subbing too, I want a set for some street fun.

 

[UltraKla$$ic]

Did anybody's order get shipped?

 

[beefcake]

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the wheel being an almost exact copy of the race star wheel

Thats the first thing I noticed when I saw the wheel.

 

[Chiron]

In fairness, there are quite a few wheels that are blatant copies of others. AMR, Drifts, TSW, and quite a few others all look damn near identical. Interested to see the outcome.

 

[BAKnBLK2010]

In fairness, there are quite a few wheels that are blatant copies of others. AMR, Drifts, TSW, and quite a few others all look damn near identical. Interested to see the outcome.

This^^^ I just don't see how you could copyright a wheel design. 5 spoke drag wheels are made by several different companies. The LMR ones are actually a better design for the fact they take an acorn lug nut and not the shank style lugs. I hope RaceStar loses this battle if in fact they are crying about it.....

 

[fdjizm]

There are tons of copies of pretty much every rim on the market and doing fine.
I'd take these over racestars and so would many others who want to use stock lugnuts and not fuck around with spacers and offset spacers, hubcentric rings, shank lug nuts and all that stupid shit (wonder what genius thought that would be a good idea.)

 

[beefcake]

This^^^ I just don't see how you could copyright a wheel design. 5 spoke drag wheels are made by several different companies. The LMR ones are actually a better design for the fact they take an acorn lug nut and not the shank style lugs. I hope RaceStar loses this battle if in fact they are crying about it.....

i don't know copyright, but i believe racestar bought the "rights" to that pattern from weld racing years ago.

as far as acorn, it def makes it easy for on off, just not nhra legal