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?
Andy


the old blue center ...


masking the wheels:


flat black, then a layer of acrylic clear coat:


the finished wheel:


another angle:



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 ....

That's not wasted time. Those blue wheels would have looked fugly on your car.

Yup! CW status.

Just remember...if you accidently spray some WD40 on the paint you will have to sell the car.

They look good.

Start to worry if you start searching the web for different sized Q-tips to detail the rest of the car.

nice trailing arms too Andy... now git to pickin all those rocks out of the tyres... very unseamly!

QUOTE (anthony @ May 20 2005, 10:47 PM)

Those blue wheels would have looked fugly on your car.

Thats sweet, fugly.... I haven't heard that in a long time, but very appropriate.

Andy, I am ashamed..

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


M

yur lost!
what's next? a bra to prevent stone chips

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.

Andy please, seek help now before it's too late...

Uh, Andy....

I think you better get those trailing arms on your car before the next event!

looks gud!! now... that blue was hideous!

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...

CW!


















Seriously, The blue had to go! Sweet! Drive it like you stole it!

Looks MUCH better. Of course this is coming from a guy thatpolshed the little metal strap that holds the coil on.

What do you mean by... "finally gone over the deep end?"

Didn't that happen a long long time ago?

Fugly? Whatdaya mean?

I like your work surface...nice hardwood floors!...yup, you must have gone over the deep end! lol

What??? I guess U ran out of YELLOW.

Andy,

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

Tom
Really, Good luck at the track.

Black looks better, are you gonna Armor All them ?

Hard wood floors in the garage! Now that's class.
Cheers, Elliot

QUOTE (Eric_Shea @ May 21 2005, 07:47 AM)

Fugly? Whatdaya mean?

The polish and finish does wonders for yours. So is that blue going up against a red car?