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just4bob50

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I painted my pony wheels because I realized I wasnt going to have enough money left over to do a 5 lug swap and buy new wheels for the LX. So anyhow I painted them a dark metalic anthracite. The paint is from Duplicolor and they turned out great. 2 coats of paint and 2 heavy coats of clear and I cant believe how they turned out.





My LX is a dark metalic blue with black tinted windows. I wanted to keep a dark look to the car without going with black wheels. These picks of the car are from inside the garge and the lighting is not the best.





I put the wheel next to one of my anthracite 93 cobra wheels on my vert so you could see the difference.



After looking at the wheels for a few days and comments from people who have seen them in person Im not in such a hurry to get new ones any more. Next week the carshould be back on the ground again and Ill get to the entire call out side in the sun. Im going to run the 255 MT DR's on the rears and 205's on the fronts. Let me know what you guys think.
 
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Looks pretty bloody nice. I dig it.
 

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i have the same paint in my garage waiting to go on my wheels, was it pretty easy?
 

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Looks good, did you paint them with the tires on?
 

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i have the same paint in my garage waiting to go on my wheels, was it pretty easy?
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Ya it was real easy. I didnt even tape up my tires. I put a heavy coating of tire shine on the tires, then I scuffed down the wheels with a green scratch pad and heavy duty degreaser. Dried the wheels and used rubbing alcohol for the final wipe. Then 2 light coats of primer misted on, paint and clear. After the first wheel I realized that it is far easier to do the inside of the spokes first the lay the wheel flat and do the face last. It was laying so smooth and even I was sure i was going to screw up the clear. When the paint goes down it will have a tecture becuase of the metailic flake in it, but once the clear was on it all smoothed out. 1 can od paint did all 4 wheels, but I needed 2 cans of clear. After the paint dried on the wheels I took a tire scrubber and just scrubbed the paint off the tires.
 

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Looks pretty Sweet Bro..Nice Touch.:SNSign:
 

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i painted my rims the same color recently only i painted the lip silver, i was pretty impressed with the duplicolor paint
 

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F'n sweet dude! Brings a new life to the same old pony's.
 

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Thanks for the comments guys. I have a buddy that has a blacked out 98 Camaro with weld wheels on it. He bought them used and they dont hold a shine very long for him. He is thinking of painting his welds the same color. Im not sure how that will look though.
 

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Nice job!!!

Sure has my interest up in painting my ponies.... but I have no clue what color.

My hatch is Emerald Green.... anyone have a suggestion to color if I painted the wheels??
 

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I like that, nice choice on color.
 

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Wow, I am impressed...Looks killer!
 
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nice, what color blue is that? you got any pics of the entire car?
 

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nice, what color blue is that? you got any pics of the entire car?
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I believe it is called twilight metalic blue. This pic is from the first day I had it , and it needed washed.

 
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You put the wheels on the wrong side. Other than that they look killer
 

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You put the wheels on the wrong side. Other than that they look killer
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Ya I switched them the next day. Im surprised it took this long for someone to say anything. Good catch!
 

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So then the next question is if you did this January 1st 2004 whyd you wait so long to post
 
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ihave midnight blue, they look similar, but u got a recent pic with the newely painted?
 

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looks good, i did the same thing 2 years ago and they are still holding up. polishing the lip makes a huge difference as well
 
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