The hubcaps (or to be more correct, wheelcovers) on the red car are called "Moon Discs." They were popular on Bonneville Speedsters in the fifties and sixties here in the states. They are supposed to be more aerodynamic than regular wheels and therefore good for top speed runs on the salt flats.
I agree though, they are horrible looking.

well if you want to talk technical i bet they hold in a heap of hot air too, you know creating a stagnation point for air flow, but then again the lower pressure of the air rushing past the inside would suck some air out, but overall negative effect!

I think I'm following you line of thinking that the brakes will overheat. The thing is, on top-speed salt-flat cars, they never use the brakes until the end of the run, and at that point they just have to stop the car once. Plus, they usually have a mile or more to do it. The aerodynamic advantage outweighs the need for brake cooling. In that situation.
On a street car or race car however, they are death on a stick. "Death on a stick?" What the hell does that mean? Oh, never mind.

how did this person manage to get such a big high quality picture posted, everthing i post needs reduction in size and quality and turns out half as good as original

dunno...
It is only 77k big though... Not too huge...


Dude is that a 1200 ute in the backgroudn with the purple and the pink Z's on the side?

Or perhaps just an evil Deceptacon trying to destroy the Autobots?

It's a 620 pick-up...

... but that's really funny

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Two things:
1) The picture is only about 2/3 height
2) Download a freeware jpeg-resizing program and play with the % quality as well as the image size (resolution). This can make a huge difference in file size.