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- Listen, we may all love spending a little bit of money
on stuff that like, objectively,
like by objective definition,
have no increased functionality for the price.
like shoes.
Right, I get it.
I like, end up these
and I know that they're not any better
than like a normal shoe, okay?
I like Vans, I like all the other stuff,
but it's nuts that people will spend like $1,500, $3,500
even $10,000 on a pair of shoes because of the hype,
because the perceived value is just there.
Same thing with other apparel,
which is like super easy to pick on for people
but the same thing can be a applied
to things that aren't as easy, right?
People will spend a ton of money on camera bodies
for like, first name, last name, photography companies,
they end up buying a 1D Mark III
only to find out that they're posting Instagram photos
but they wanna look like Danny Batista.
It's just one of those things
where people have a tendency to spend more money on things
for the look instead of the function.
But what happens when that starts happening
in the automotive scene?
Good question me, I'm Alex, @Alex.FI on Instagram.
In today's episode,
we're talking about the yeezys of the car scene
the supreme of the Stan's car groups.
The wheels have that have everyone drooling
and price tags to really match that make all of us
kinda, sorta tinkle.
We're talking about just what exactly happen
to Blitz 03 wheels.
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Now I know it sounds a little bit more like a sales plug
but it's not a big deal, okay.
I put on the coding hat, we put on ones and zeros
and twos and we made it happen, baby.
The Blitz 03 wheel is a big boy these days,
you've got Randy T with big boy specs
on a three piece Blitz 03 on his MARK 5 Super
which looks absolutely beautiful with his Michelin tire.
TJ Hunt has had four or five videos recently
where he was buying flipping or selling.
All right, his family heirlooms to buy more Blitz 03s.
It's like the number one commodity and Adam LZ has Blitz
on his S15 drift car or at least I think he did.
And like all sorts of crazy things happened
like Blitz 03s blew up a little bit like crypto and NFTs.
Now threepiece.us dropped a set of brand new inbox,
unmolested set of Blitz 03s for $20,000, $20,000.
The Dakota math tells me that that's a lot
of tacos and it doesn't make any sense
at least right off of the gate.
So how and before we even get further into it
we do wanna thank threepiece.us for sharing this information
with us to tell you a little bit more about this.
They've been in the three piece game for a while
and they do a lot of buying and selling
and that includes the Blitz 03.
They were on the Blitz 03 hype train
and without them, we wouldn't have gotten some
of this information.
So with that said, thank you threepiece.us for.
We appreciate you so very much.
$20,000 unopen box of Blitz 03.
Still blows my fuckin mind.
Now let's take it back.
Okay.
Before even the wheel game.
Blitz Ho or Blitz Technospeed Wheels
as a subsidiary was a topic that really was focused in 1981
when the company was founded in Tokyo,
it's founded by a guy by the name of Satoshi Yamaguci.
Okay and was specifically focused not on wheels
but tuning for companies like KK and K Turbos.
They were really developed into fine tuning JDM platforms.
Their launch into the tuning scene came
at a perfect time too, because it was pretty much
the birthplace of countless tuner companies
that would decimate the record books.
I mean, really the 80s was a time to be alive.
Top secret among others were finding a ton
of success with the explosion of the automotive sport
in Japan and Blitz was no stranger to that.
The motorsports industry was booming in the 70s and 80s,
finding ways to get involved in the motorsport realm,
Blitz founded success in tuning beginning
to produce products for their own cars
since they couldn't find really much
of what they were looking for when it had to do
with RX-7s, Skylines and other tuning platforms.
Blitz tuning company, tuning garage just like everyone else.
They just specialized in turbocharger applications
and some tuning platforms.
Blitz did build an R34 known as the R348,
which had a 2.75 liter stroker with 850 horsepower
and over 200 miles per hour at the top speed.
These boys weren't playing rock.
None of them were.
And I know we're trying to get to the wheels
but Blitz really didn't mess around when it came
into tuning either
and that's really where the bread and butter was.
Over time Blitz would go to war
with the other tuning companies and went to the track to try
and beat them out in drag strips and drift circuits.
They had an 8.2 second quarter mile
on Mark IV at the time,
which was pretty damn quick.
Now, not as fast as some of the top secret stuff
but it's definitely held its own.
So over time, like most shops Blitz was finally toying
with the idea of producing more than just its own tuners,
turbos and engine components though over time
the interest inherently grew to wheels
because as you're developing high horsepower cars
a lot of times you're slapping new fenders
on it to get wide wheels entire underneath.
This is where the history gets a little bit muddy
because some will tell you
that Blitz had their wheels made by NK.
Others will say that they were made by Werp
but really what matters is that Blitz wasn't the first,
nowhere even the most successful tuning company
to offer their own wheel line?
This is not something that's really inherently new.
A lot of people were doing this.
A lot of people were trying to make it successful.
And that people were really successful.
Liberty Walk had and has their own wheels.
Rocket Bunny has and had their own wheels.
RWB has and had their own wheels.
Everyone has or had their own wheels.
Now we're not a tubing company by any means
but Anovia Wheels is our company,
but Blitz was going into the 90s and early 2000s
with the idea of having their own wheels
and that wasn't a crazy new idea.
Lots of tuning companies were doing it
and partnering with multi piece wheel companies
to make their own branded wheels that would go
with their body kits, their over fender setups
and their race car things that they needed
to have a very specific size wheel.
They just found out if they slot their own logo on it
they could actually brag about it
and get other people to buy them as well
and a lot of times they'd also sell the whole kit
of the tuning, body kit, over fender and wheels
and tires together as one thing.
According to threepiece.us Blitz
was a company that made the Blitz 03
among other wheels in their lineup for only a few years.
It wasn't a massive production thing.
And about five or so years went by with it.
And then as they came out, they were kind of plagued
with the same way Rocket Bunny Wheels were plagued
with not doing that great.
It had a great brand name, but the design
wasn't really enough to get people to want to buy them.
And we're talking about the early to mid 2000s.
And over time, the Blitz 03 among others
like the z1, z2 and a couple others were discontinued
and life just moved on.
In fact, up until 2015, 2016, you could still buy a set
of Blitz 03s for like $1,200 and they're really deemed
as like middle of the road authentic JDM wheels.
You can put it in between like a VSKF
and probably a base model SSR.
So just what exactly happened.
What makes them change from a $1,200
mid tier three piece wheel, they find pretty easy
into a $20,000 set of wheels that people just want to buy.
They just wanna collect them,
it's just like a Pokemon card.
They just wanna have it.
They wanna take a picture with it.
They wanna cuddle with it.
They wanna hold it.
They wanna get Adam LZ to kiss it, mooch on it.
TJ Hunt to slap it.
Blitz started to get more popular
but before the huge influencer craze.
It was becoming an underdog real wheel option for people
on the S chassis platform that wanted something unique
but still wanted specs that worked.
The S chassis platform was finding a lot
of success with the Blitz 03 and they looked pretty good.
Chrome, drifting, it works.
Blitz 03 in specs for JDM Carmen
little rebarreling work and everything you needed,
if you wanted to ship 'em from across the pond
you didn't have to do a lot of work.
And those were drifting on them
with S chassis had a decent enough following
for people to wanna copy them over time,
not massive followings but decent enough
that they had a little bit of street cred.
Okay.
And just like most things in the drift community.
If it stays around long enough, it will inevitably 100% go
to the stance scene, drift scene, stance scene, 100%.
After the stancing grabbed the wheel
everything started getting a little bit crazier and crazier
with the wider setups and the rebarreling
and the refinishing and Blitz really started to gain ground
in two major communities that the people could care about
the Japanese wheels, drifting and stance.
Pair that slow burn growth with the fact that
it was almost always in secondhand sales
and you get an incremental increase
in demand with a flat or decreasing supply.
Remember, as people want the wheel more,
Blitz wasn't making more wheels.
There was just the same 10 year old wheel that was
just existing somewhere in the world.
Congratulations.
Now you can skip school.
That's called supply and demand.
You'll learn it a lot in forecasting.
Everything else is made up and the numbers don't matter.
Now take that small burn,
grab your nearest can of charcoal fuel
and then use a flame throw to light it
and you pretty much get what happens when Adam LZ
and TJ Hunt have done for the demand of this wheel.
Now it's also kind of like a fun meme in regards
to it because they just keep kind of hyping it up.
But it is really funny because it's happening
with them and other influencers,
by the way guys please don't hate me.
Sam Lowe is trying to get an invite
to the next invitational so he can run his Lexus
into a wall or fence in front of thousands of people.
The demand after that continued to surge prices.
What used to be 13 to 1,500$ a set
became 45 to $6,500 a set.
And in most recent news that's when threepiece.us
found a set of unopened original Blitz 03s.
I think it was like in Norway
or across the pond in the other direction.
And they immediately bought them
up only to pop 'em open to the world to go
to a worldwide web for a crisp, nifty price tag of $20,000.
And now we're here.
The wheels weren't made a lot,
nowhere they really made for a long time,
not for exclusivity,
but because people originally
just actually did not want them
which is kinda weird when you think about it
because it's kinda like crypto,
like it's the same thing
except a lot more complex with crypto.
I take that all back.
Low production meant low stocking orders, if any at all
since they were multi piece wheels for the most part.
So nowadays it's too just a huge demand
with very little supply.
So what's the future for Blitz 03.
Well, if people continue to collect them
and the demand stays there,
which is completely dependent upon the hype,
the price will likely stay there or even go up.
Will Blitz stay there?
That's where some people aren't too sure
because it's kinda like the same thing that happens
with all the NFT yeezy conversation.
And just about anything that it drives a premium
because of the exclusivity
or just the lack of understanding.
The wheels among everything else are worth
what people are willing to pay for it.
And that's all that matters.
I mean, really that's the end game baby.
And when you look at it
that's why your Facebook marketplace has $25,000
240 SX shells in seven different fucking colors
because people will pay for it.
Stop paying for it, please.
But if you are looking for authentic Blitz 03s,
they're still around.
You just gotta keep your eyes peeled on the
forms and the marketplaces
and you gotta be willing to maybe probably take out a loan.
If you aren't willing to spend 10k on a set of wheels
and need a set of wheels to get your car
ready to rock and roll before the season starts in a month
at least check out fitmentindustries.com.
And of course that goes for pretty much
any thing in regards to suspension or wheel entire packages
because they can come in mount and bounds
and ship to your door because that's kinda what we do.
Let us know your thoughts on the Blitz 03 below
and whether you think it's worth the hype or not
and drop a comment on what you'd like to see us
talk about next I'm Alex from Fitment Industries
and we will see you later.
Peace.
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