What Made Pontiac's 8-Lug Wheels So Special, And Which Models Had Them?
What Made Pontiac’s 8-Lug Wheels So Special, And Which Models Had Them? Picture in your mind a wheel that’s attached with 8 lug nuts, and you’ll probably see a large wheel mounted on a pickup truck; likely a heavy-duty rig with at least a 3/4 ton capacity. Big engines and big axles make it logical to assume you’d need lots of hardware to bear all that torque — there’s even a heavy-duty show truck magazine out there called 8-Lug....