I have been looking for a set of specific wheels for over a year now. The last set in America was on an Accord that was wrecked and scraped. Fast forward to me doing my weekly google for any FS on the intertrons and I found an ebay.co.uk sale. I clicked the link and it just so happened that the auction ended... one hour prior. WTF? The set were being offered by a breaker who didn't know what he had and sold them way cheaper than I'd like to admit.

So I emailed the winner offering him my soul for them. He never responded after two weeks so I emailed him again. He finally emailed back and so began the process. Took damn near a month to get him to a specific number and that was that. Not really. He didn't want to ship. So I called the most unlikely of likely's and they agreed to go pick up the wheels for me.

Anyways... after a dozen international text messages, a skype call to the UK and a Miami Vice-styled bank transfer later, my wheels were in my possession. Sort of. The deal was made in an alleyway in the shittiest parts of south london by one white dude and two sketchy black dudes. It was straight out of a bad Guy Ritchie movie.

They will be the only set in the united states. Out of stock for the past 5 years and no longer being made. I think there are only 2 sets in the UK and beyond and god knows how many are left in Japan. Now I just need to get them to the states.

It's always an adventure right? :)

This entry was posted by JKREW, on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. You can leave your response.