The Top 20 Strangest Wheel Designs of All Time

One of the easiest, if not the easiest, ways to transform the appearance of a vehicle is to change the wheels. Bolting on a set of big, sporty looking wheels can make even the most dull and pedestrian vehicle look more muscular and snazzy. Of course, that’s assuming the wheels are themselves muscular and/or snazzy looking.

At the opposite end of the spectrum lie wheels that are strange, if not downright weird. Some of these rims were fitted at the factory, but most are aftermarket pieces, and they run the gamut from functionally funky modern art pieces to kitschy tributes to cultural touchstones. Here then, in no particular order, are 20 of the most curious and kooky rims that have ever been attached to road-going motor vehicles.

You are getting sleeeeepy…

Come on, red 28!

Flower power!

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spindle…

Money for nothing and your rims for free

Can you bear not having these on your car?

People with clear wheels shouldn’t drive over stones…or something…

What the pluck?

Ribbed for her (or his) pleasure

Welcome to the gun show!

Priced at $420 each?

Insert coin…no wait, don’t!

Why? Because NACA Duct

BMW M-System “Turbines”: German for “dead ringers for whitewall tires”

Ring ring ring ring ring Alfa-phone!

You’d have to be a real, uh, you-know-what, to put a set of these on your ride

These would look great on a Kaiser…

Ain’t nothing like the Tweel thing

Competition-proven cuteness

Inca Dinca Do!