The wheel dates back to around 4000 B.C when artisans used them for spinning pottery. Later, the Mesopotamians took two discs, stuck one on each end of a hunk of wood and made the world's first axle.

Today, everybody's got custom wheels. The guy driving the Escalade to work runs 24s with paper-thin sidewalls and those ridiculous spinner wheels. Even the pizza-delivery kid's got 18s on his Honda.

The first and most important thing about modifying a car is stance. You can't just pick any good-looking rim and hope it will look good on your car. Getting the right style rim, ride height, rim size ...