Walking in a nearby neighbourhood I saw the coolest car in Austin – a 70s era Chevrolet Caprice Classic Landau coupe. Now that’s a mouthful; it’s a Chevy, Caprice Classic model, Landau edition, coupe style – and it rocks.

The Coupe

As you can see the owner knows where to put his money when it comes to building up a classic car – the wheels. Those suckers must be, like, all of 25 inches across and rock the car into the stratosphere of cool.

The Wheels

The Chevrolet Caprice was produced in the golden era of the post-wing sedan and was marketed at the top-end of the sedan market; the Caprice was basically the Chrysler 300 of its day. And in the Caprice range the Landau was the high style package and the coupe version made it just plain gangsta.

The Fastback

Now this car does need some work; the leather seats are all torn up and need to be replaced with some buttery soft Argentinian leather and the exterior has seen some DIY dent repair that needs to be smoothed and polished out until that sucker gleams like the mirror on the Hubble space telescope. But at least the wheels are in place. And what magnificent wheels they are; round and enormous and shiny, they must weigh as much as half the frickin’ rest of the car, but it’s all worth it as you roll down the boulevard boss-pimpin’ at 10mph.

Boss Pimp

Now if I could only get those wheels on my bike – yeah.