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SirAndy
post May 20 2005, 11:41 PM
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i'm getting the car ready for sundays event and i when i looked at my track-wheels i got the urge to make them look better ...
so i cleaned them up and repainted the center to match my street wheels.
if i don't score at the event, at least i'm going to go down in style ...

i wasted a perfectly normal friday afternoon polishing my track wheels.
is this the beginning of the end? should i seek professional help? is there any hope?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif) Andy


the old blue center ...
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masking the wheels:
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flat black, then a layer of acrylic clear coat:
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the finished wheel:
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another angle:
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btw. the embedded pebbles are actually from one of last years AX at marina!
they're going back home on sunday, after a year long vacation in oakland ....
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post May 20 2005, 11:47 PM
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That's not wasted time. Those blue wheels would have looked fugly on your car. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 12:58 AM
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Yup! CW status.
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post May 21 2005, 01:02 AM
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Just remember...if you accidently spray some WD40 on the paint you will have to sell the car. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

They look good.

Start to worry if you start searching the web for different sized Q-tips to detail the rest of the car. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/cool.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 02:03 AM
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nice trailing arms too Andy... now git to pickin all those rocks out of the tyres... very unseamly!
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post May 21 2005, 02:18 AM
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QUOTE (anthony @ May 20 2005, 10:47 PM)
Those blue wheels would have looked fugly on your car. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

Thats sweet, fugly.... I haven't heard that in a long time, but very appropriate.
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post May 21 2005, 02:48 AM
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Andy, I am ashamed..

18 years ago, you would have used a brighter blue.


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post May 21 2005, 05:02 AM
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yur lost!
what's next? a bra to prevent stone chips (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/lol2.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 05:11 AM
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May I suggest some white touch-up paint on the side walls of the slicks to sharpen up the letters in GOOD/YEAR and EAGLE. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 06:02 AM
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Andy please, seek help now before it's too late... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/lol2.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 06:49 AM
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Uh, Andy....

I think you better get those trailing arms on your car before the next event! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 06:49 AM
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looks gud!! now... that blue was hideous! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 07:13 AM
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washing and waxing the race car at the track can be very demoralising (psych...) to some of the other teams. if you're polishing stuff, it must mean that ALL the other prep work on the car is DONE and you are ready to win.

i like a good-looking car, and i have been known to paint or polish something instead of doing something else that needed to be done, just for a break. just don't let YOURSELF get too deluded that everything's done and perfet if it's not yet...
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post May 21 2005, 07:40 AM
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Seriously, The blue had to go! Sweet! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/aktion035.gif) Drive it like you stole it! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 07:48 AM
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Looks MUCH better. Of course this is coming from a guy thatpolshed the little metal strap that holds the coil on. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 08:11 AM
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What do you mean by... "finally gone over the deep end?"

Didn't that happen a long long time ago?
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post May 21 2005, 08:47 AM
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Fugly? Whatdaya mean? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)


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post May 21 2005, 08:48 AM
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I like your work surface...nice hardwood floors!...yup, you must have gone over the deep end! lol
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post May 21 2005, 08:57 AM
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What??? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif) I guess U ran out of YELLOW. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)
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post May 21 2005, 02:31 PM
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Andy,

If you can't go fast you looking good. Do you know something???

Tom
Really, Good luck at the track.
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