ImolaS4 is alive
#22
10-12-2005, 03:41 AM
RE: ImolaS4 is alive
you had better not planning on leaving anytime soon either.. and heck thats something we should really sit down and talk about.. your post count.. hmmm... I would like to see you raise your count back up to what it used to be.. it seems like the majority of the senior members dont post as frequently as they used to..
#23
10-12-2005, 12:13 PM
RE: ImolaS4 is alive
ORIGINAL: PandaXpress
remember the one thing that ImolaS4 hated the most
the R WORD
remember the one thing that ImolaS4 hated the most
the R WORD
#26
10-13-2005, 01:28 PM
RE: ImolaS4 is alive
Panda...thanks for checking in with Imola and letting us know...
Yeah...he was one of the reasons that I started hanging out here...And I loved it when he would get so worked up over RIMS....
Here is one of his many RIMS rants:
Yeah...he was one of the reasons that I started hanging out here...And I loved it when he would get so worked up over RIMS....
Here is one of his many RIMS rants:
ORIGINAL: ImolaS4
OK... here I go again...
Stop calling them rims!!
They're wheels.
To repeat from yesterday...
OK... here I go again...
Stop calling them rims!!
They're wheels.
To repeat from yesterday...
Rims is a vernacular term now used by the ricers, low riders and the show truck crowd. It is a term that grew from the time when steel wheels had snap-on rims that would cover the steel and dress up the wheel. (There are some of these steel wheels around to this day.) I'm not talking about hubcaps either. Hubcaps cover the hubs. Rims snapped onto the edge. They were a great accessory because curb rash could be economically resolved by replacing the rim rather than the entire wheel. The natural evolution has left us with three-piece wheels; those that allow for a "rim" to be replaced should they become damaged. Since the majority of wheels of discussion are one-piece, those wheels don't have the "accessories" of the early steel wheels nor the "rim" of a three-piece wheel. In fact, the edge of the wheel is still technically referred to as the rim of the wheel. Thus, it's a grammatical mistake to call wheels by a part of the wheel. They're just wheels.
#27
10-13-2005, 02:59 PM
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RE: ImolaS4 is alive
ORIGINAL: abacab
Panda...thanks for checking in with Imola and letting us know...
Yeah...he was one of the reasons that I started hanging out here...And I loved it when he would get so worked up over RIMS....
Here is one of his many RIMS rants:
Panda...thanks for checking in with Imola and letting us know...
Yeah...he was one of the reasons that I started hanging out here...And I loved it when he would get so worked up over RIMS....
Here is one of his many RIMS rants:
ORIGINAL: ImolaS4
OK... here I go again...
Stop calling them rims!!
They're wheels.
To repeat from yesterday...
OK... here I go again...
Stop calling them rims!!
They're wheels.
To repeat from yesterday...
Rims is a vernacular term now used by the ricers, low riders and the show truck crowd. It is a term that grew from the time when steel wheels had snap-on rims that would cover the steel and dress up the wheel. (There are some of these steel wheels around to this day.) I'm not talking about hubcaps either. Hubcaps cover the hubs. Rims snapped onto the edge. They were a great accessory because curb rash could be economically resolved by replacing the rim rather than the entire wheel. The natural evolution has left us with three-piece wheels; those that allow for a "rim" to be replaced should they become damaged. Since the majority of wheels of discussion are one-piece, those wheels don't have the "accessories" of the early steel wheels nor the "rim" of a three-piece wheel. In fact, the edge of the wheel is still technically referred to as the rim of the wheel. Thus, it's a grammatical mistake to call wheels by a part of the wheel. They're just wheels.
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