I put these wheels on my 78 280... How do you think they look?

You cannot go wrong with a factory option. Looks good and they are a bit cheaper than some of the other wheels out there...

Those wheels look great on your Z, too bad they didn't come a little larger, like 15x7 or 15x8's or maybe even in a 16. with the same offset of course.

JZM...

Very nice. IMO, the six-spoke wheels were by far the best-looking of all the 280ZX alloys. They seem to accent the big-bumper 280Zs quite well. I don't care for them nearly as much on 240Zs.

I had them on my 78 for a while. To me, there just okay. Over the years, I've actually had slots, the 6 spoke zx wheels, the 'iron cross' zx wheels, and now the 260/280Z factory alloy which is my favorite of those four.

I want to amend my opinion. If as your screen name implies and the car looks - that is in fact a Black Pearl, you should get the factory correct wheels and stick as close as possible to original.

Others will disagree but after a while the ZAP and Black Pearl cars may gain some value over their contemporaries...

Edited February 22, 200916 yr by conedodger

They look great... it's a matter of personal taste. I do have to agree with Stephen and Rob... Personally I think the four spoke factory wheels look the best.. but then I'm more or less a four spoke person.. American Libra's have always been my favorite...

FWIW,

Carl B.

The last and present set of wheels on my car have a story. Those wheels were actually given to me by the previous and original owner. I bought the car from him in 1997 and it had the slots on it. In 2000 he contacted me because he was moving and he asked me if I wanted the other wheels for the Z. I, of course said "What other wheels?" He explained that they were the original wheels that were on the car when he bought it new. When I went over to his house the four spokes in like new condition were stacked in his garage complete with center caps and lugnuts but worn out tires all individually wrapped in four black trash bags. They had swapped the slots and better tires from his son's Celica with the intention of getting new tires for the Nissan wheels but never got around to it. When I asked how much he wanted for them he said "take 'em". He said that they should have gone with the Z when I bought it three years earlier.

These rims look great as is - only better option IMHO is the 280ZX turbo rim (sometimes referred to as the "swastika" rim).

These rims look great as is - only better option IMHO is the 280ZX turbo rim (sometimes referred to as the "swastika" rim).

Which is a 15" rim unlike the others.

Please! No swastikas! They never looked good even on the ZXTs they came on, and certainly don't compliment the lines of an S30. Even iron crosses are better than swastikas, and iron crosses are ugly.

All IMO, of course.

Please! No swastikas! They never looked good even on the ZXTs they came on, and certainly don't compliment the lines of an S30. Even iron crosses are better than swastikas, and iron crosses are ugly.

All IMO, of course.

And no Snowflakes/stars either although I've had a set of all five of the S30/S130 alloys. Those two, swastikas and snowflakes, are my least favorite.