Crazy story: How I came by my Fikses
06-01-03 | 08:20 AM
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Crazy story: How I came by my Fikses
Check this story out:
About 6 months ago I had been looking at rims for a while and was thinking about getting the SSR GT1s from the Tire Rack but really didn't want to spend $360 a wheel for 17x9s and didn't *really* have the cash to blow either. I had always liked Fikses and had often drooled over Ed Kim's (Mr. Stock) FM-5s he had on his R1. I knew I couldn't afford the Fikses new and even used they were astronomically expensive. Ah well, what's an underpaid soldier to do
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I'm at work one day in the motorpool and taking a break and surfing ebay. I stumble across a pair of FD Fikse FM-5s (rear axle, 17x10) with new Potenza 275 width 730s with a buy it now price of $750. The rims were used, and there was no picture. After staring at the screen for a minute, I went to Fikse.com and called the number on the site. I was informed that these wheels retail for $950 per rim. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I then called my dad, a fellow R1 owner who lives in NJ, and asked him if he'd be willing to drive down to Virginia to check them out before he hand delivered the money. No problemo, says the old man. This transaction goes down without a hitch. I post this little ditty up on the forum. I can't believe my luck but am now looking at breaking the bank for a pair of fronts.
About a week later I get 4 PMs from some buds telling me to check out Ebay again. By some crazy stroke of luck somebody is selling a pair of brand new fronts in 17x8.5 for $750. I email the dude offering $550, he comes back with $650, I buy them w/out having to agonize over the auction.
I'm hellbent on getting s03s, so sell the potenza 730s off the back axle for $300 to someone here on the forum. Add it all up and I somehow, someway (....keep comin' up with funky a$$ $h!t like every single day....
) scored a set of $3600 Fikses for $1100.
Keep checking ebay, it can happen to you too!
Edit: As a postscript, it gets even weirder. About a month after mounting the rims I'm IMing with Brian Dowling out in the Carolinas. He used to run Rotary Powered and is a pretty well known rotary guy. I tell him my crazy story and he asks me if the center caps off the used back axle had the "Fikse" shaded in red. I IM back that yes, they were and that I had purchased a pair of new centercaps so that front and back would match. Brian comes back and tells me that he's 99% sure that the rims were originally his, which he had mounted on Brooks Weisblat's famed red FD (ran the fastest stock 1/4 time) when Brian bought the 7 from Brooks. Turns out the guy that bought Brook's FD from Brian crashed the car and destroyed the front, thus the need to sell just the rear set of rims. Pretty crazy stuff, huh?
About 6 months ago I had been looking at rims for a while and was thinking about getting the SSR GT1s from the Tire Rack but really didn't want to spend $360 a wheel for 17x9s and didn't *really* have the cash to blow either. I had always liked Fikses and had often drooled over Ed Kim's (Mr. Stock) FM-5s he had on his R1. I knew I couldn't afford the Fikses new and even used they were astronomically expensive. Ah well, what's an underpaid soldier to do
?I'm at work one day in the motorpool and taking a break and surfing ebay. I stumble across a pair of FD Fikse FM-5s (rear axle, 17x10) with new Potenza 275 width 730s with a buy it now price of $750. The rims were used, and there was no picture. After staring at the screen for a minute, I went to Fikse.com and called the number on the site. I was informed that these wheels retail for $950 per rim. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I then called my dad, a fellow R1 owner who lives in NJ, and asked him if he'd be willing to drive down to Virginia to check them out before he hand delivered the money. No problemo, says the old man. This transaction goes down without a hitch. I post this little ditty up on the forum. I can't believe my luck but am now looking at breaking the bank for a pair of fronts.
About a week later I get 4 PMs from some buds telling me to check out Ebay again. By some crazy stroke of luck somebody is selling a pair of brand new fronts in 17x8.5 for $750. I email the dude offering $550, he comes back with $650, I buy them w/out having to agonize over the auction.
I'm hellbent on getting s03s, so sell the potenza 730s off the back axle for $300 to someone here on the forum. Add it all up and I somehow, someway (....keep comin' up with funky a$$ $h!t like every single day....
) scored a set of $3600 Fikses for $1100.Keep checking ebay, it can happen to you too
!Edit: As a postscript, it gets even weirder. About a month after mounting the rims I'm IMing with Brian Dowling out in the Carolinas. He used to run Rotary Powered and is a pretty well known rotary guy. I tell him my crazy story and he asks me if the center caps off the used back axle had the "Fikse" shaded in red. I IM back that yes, they were and that I had purchased a pair of new centercaps so that front and back would match. Brian comes back and tells me that he's 99% sure that the rims were originally his, which he had mounted on Brooks Weisblat's famed red FD (ran the fastest stock 1/4 time) when Brian bought the 7 from Brooks. Turns out the guy that bought Brook's FD from Brian crashed the car and destroyed the front, thus the need to sell just the rear set of rims. Pretty crazy stuff, huh
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Last edited by GoodfellaFD3S; 06-01-03 at 08:24 AM.
06-01-03 | 02:05 PM
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Great story! Nothing like getting a great deal
I had a similar eBay experience with my Fikses, although the price wasn't nearly as good. I got a set of almost new FM/10s for less than 2 grand!
I had a similar eBay experience with my Fikses, although the price wasn't nearly as good. I got a set of almost new FM/10s for less than 2 grand!
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06-02-03 | 09:05 AM
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I guess all that studying in school really payed off, huh? How long before we read about you being in the slammer for cooking the books at Gotham? 
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06-03-03 | 12:00 AM
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10-12-04 | 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by maxcooper
I thought this was going to be an embarassing, Lounge-style masturbation story.
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10-17-04 | 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by GoodfellaFD3S
Brian comes back and tells me that he's 99% sure that the rims were originally his, which he had mounted on Brooks Weisblat's famed red FD (ran the fastest stock 1/4 time) when Brian bought the 7 from Brooks. Turns out the guy that bought Brook's FD from Brian crashed the car and destroyed the front, thus the need to sell just the rear set of rims. Pretty crazy stuff, huh ?
?WOW... i haven't heard that name in YEARS. I remember meeting Brooks at Moroso back in 96 or 97 - GREAT guy. His car was immaculate, however was FAR from stock - stock TWINS maybe, but not a stock car when it ran 11.4.
good 'ol rx7.miamisci.org :-)
now viper.miamisci.org
Ray
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