Mars Vintage Weight Plates
These extremely unique deep-dish plates, featuring a massive crosshub design, were once a complete mystery. Now known to have originated in Oakland during the 1950s, they are one of the few deep-dish sets with change plates down to 1.25 lbs, all clearly marked. The plates’ flared walls are impressively deep, adding to their distinctive look.
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Based on 1 reviews from Gym Radar users, the Mars Mars Vintage Weight Plates have an average rating of 4.00 out of 5. They're currently the #163 most-owned Iron on Gym Radar, with 1 home gyms reporting ownership.
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Highly sought after vintage deep dish plates, made in Oakland, CA in the 1960s; a collaboration between Paul MArtin and Rudy Smith (creator of the Smith machine). They took two letters from each of their names and that's how the MARS brand was born. Watch the Massenomics video with Efren above for more details. Not very many sets of these plates are known to still exist but there may yet be more out there floating around, especially in Northern California. These were used by some of the most famous lifters of the Golden Era scene in California. Their manufacturing process wasn't the tightest... one of my 5s fits on any modern powerbar but the other barely slips on some and won't fit other 2" sleeves. The plate weights for MARS are also notoriously inaccurate. Lastly, they cost more than is justifiable for ordinary use, unless you're an insane collector bitten by the deep dish bug.... but here we are nonetheless.