World of Wheels

Stealers Wheels (Hot wheels acceleracers)

Stealers Wheel was originally a famous Scottish folk and rock band formed by a group of 1972 former school friends, Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty from Scotland in the same year. In the early 70’s, the band was considered as the British version of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and, after their two unsuccessful singles, came to worldwide recognition with their first hit “Stuck in the Middle With You”. The track blended in the style of former greats Bob Dylan and The Beatles made the top 10 of the single charts in Great Britain and the US in 1973 with the ratings of number 6 in the USA and number 8 in UK This broke their shackles and sold over one million copies worldwide.

Some decades later a remixed dance version was a rated as UK Top 10 in September of 2001.This was a hit for Louise, with a music video that drew heavily on the original song’s appearance in the sound track of Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino.

Mentor Williams got the chance to produce their last album as Leiber & Stoller ran into disagreements and managerial problems. The first two albums were produced by the two. All the three albums had a particularly remarkable, slightly bizarre sleeve designs by artist John Byrne.

The band’s self-titled debut album sold quite well, with a rating of number 50 in the US-album-charts and was critically acclaimed hit, but the Stealers Wheel could

not repeat this success with subsequent releases. In 1973/1974 the two singles “Everything Will Turn Out Fine” and “Star” also made the top 30 of both the UK and US charts, but the latter track is still pretty popular today. Former Spooky Tooth member Luther Grosvenor who later became member of Mott the Hoople, took part in the recordings for “Everything Will Turn Out Fine” and replaced Rafferty who left the band for quite some time. By 1973, Coombes, Pilnick and Williams had all left en bloc; the lonely Williams later went on to a tour with Jethro Tull in the year 1978 teaming up with his old acquaintances from Blackpool, Ian Anderson and Barriemore Barlow.

As there was confusion between Rafferty and Egan, they could not agree whether they should carry on as a full band or set of two, and because of their artistic differences, there was a hindrance of over eighteen months in the release of their third and last album. Not withstanding the frequent changes in the line-up, Stealers Wheel finally broke up in 1975, and their last album Right or Wrong was released with no one to promote it. Roughly two years after the release of Ferguslie Park (1973), the group was barely known

and the two last single releases faded away without a sound in the charts.

Quentin Tarantino in his first directorial venture Reservoir Dogs used the track “Stuck in the Middle with You” as its soundtrack, bringing new notice to the band. All three albums have been out of stock for years, but in 2004-05 the British independent label Lemon Recordings re-released them with re mastered sound and new liner-notes. Do try to catch up these fabulous discographies and experience the sublime era of soft rock.

Add comment February 15th, 2008

Wheels – Rota Wheels

The Philippine Aluminum Wheels, Inc. (PAWI) is Philippines’ pioneer and leading alloy wheel manufacturer and is time and again listed in the Philippines’ Top 600 Corporations. Since they started in 1976, they have specialized in only one product; the Rota Alloy Wheel. All of their resources and energies have been directed into making Rota the finest product one would get today. A top-notch quality wheel, scrupulously designed, and beautifully engineered is a product that can easily outweigh the most prestigious competitions of the world. The Rota wheel excels both in style and in performance.

PAWI which is led by a creative Romy Rojas, whose love for motoring and motor sports has always been an enduring passion, has productively made the

transition from being a pioneer to an worldwide exporter of quality alloy wheels.

The company’s first produced its Rota Brand of wheels in 1977, with a preliminary manufacturing capacity of 4,000 wheels a month. Rota wheels are preferred by Chrysler-Mitsubishi of Philippines as OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) for its vehicles after passing through the rigorous OEM qualifications of its parent company in Japan.

The subsequent years saw other major automobile assemblers such as Ford, Datsun, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Opel and Volkswagen engaging the services of this company to produce their OE wheel necessities for their vehicles.

In 1988, PAWI made a research on magnesium-strengthened, heat treatable alloy, and came out with flying colors. This made the Rota wheels lighter yet stronger and long-lasting. PAWI began to upgrade its facilities and introduced state-of-the-art technological improvements in the form of

the latest paraphernalia and machines that speed up and improve compound analysis, machining, painting and finishing. With their comeback into the Philippine market Toyota chose Rota wheels as their OE wheels, as well as Daihatsu.

In the year 1990, a landmark was drawn when PAWI hit a record production of 20,000 Rota wheels per month. In the present day, it produces alloy wheels of outstanding quality, using up to date equipments. A new series of improvement has boosted its production capacity to new heights of 50,000 wheels a month. This is more than ten times of its capacity when it first started.

The manufactures of Rota wheels are done in accordance with high international standards to which they aim at. They utilize some of the most complicated and modern testing carried out by major wheel manufacturers to guarantee the quality and durability of our product.

Their mark of quality is ensured as they use the most elaborate testing methods in the industry such as Composition Test, Vacuum Test, Impact Testing, Cornering Fatigue Test, Drum Test and Coordinating Test

The Rota Motor Sports Series Wheels which they have launched are for true race car fanatics and it isn’t for the averages aspiring racers who are

just all show and no go. The Rota wheels that we get off the shelf of the dealers will be the same tried and tested models that they use for their racing teams all over the world. So fasten the seat belts and enjoy the ride!

Add comment February 12th, 2008