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Early American
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At the dawn of the second half of the 20th century half the population of the USA lived in rural America and street racing had yet to even be named. Racing was something that occurred on tracks or backroads - not on city streets. On the west coast a new method of racing was being invented - a way to race within the confines of an urban environment. If you want an object lesson in how serving a niche within an American subculture is a great business model, look no further than the birth of American Racing custom wheels.
The drag race was a creation of popular culture. It did not come out of boardrooms or marketing plans - it was a creation of the street. Two of the sports' early stars were San Francisco machine shop owner Jim Ellison and partner and drag racer Romeo Palamides.
Between them, these two invented the mag wheel. Using spoked magnesium wheels with a strength to weight ratio unheard of in any other automobile wheel format, they revolutionized drag racing, first, and American car wheel design second.
Once Romeo began cruising and bruising the local streets and strips in his revolutionary mags, word quickly spread among street racing enthusiasts. Other racers begged Jim and Romeo to make mags for them. Demand was so relentless that it became clear a profitable business could be made designing, manufacturing and selling after-market wheels for street and drag racing and American Racing Equipment was incorporated by Romeo, Jim and design engineer Tom Griffith in 1956. The company was serviced the street racing subculture until the early Sixties, when the famous Torq Thrust wheel took the company mainstream.
The Torq Thrust is widely credited with creating the after-market car wheel. The 5-spoke 'tapered parabolic' design kept brakes cooler while the muscular look made the driver look cooler. Suddenly drivers who had no intention to drag race wanted American Racing wheels for their car. With them, even Mom's '57 Bel-Air looked like a muscle car.
American Racing custom wheels have since ascended into that pantheon where a product becomes a symbol for a life style: think Harley, Blackberry or Royal Dolton. Certain American Racing wheels are prized by collectors - most especially early Sixties Torq Thrust. Well, maybe not m-o-s-t especially. The absolute most valuable American Racing wheel is a broken Vector model owned by a collector in Sylmar, California, according to the American Racing website.
Where did this collector's item come from and why is it so sought after? The answer to that question shows both the quality of American Racing custom wheels and the company's penetration into pop culture.
All of the 340 General Lees that Warner Brothers Studio had built during the 7 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard TV series had Vector wheels. 321 of those vehicles crashed doing the spectacular, pre-CGI stunt jumps the series was famous for. One of those jumps resulted in a broken wheel. That's one broken American Racing wheel out of 1,284 stunt jumps that resulted in a totaled vehicle.
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