Re: Painting Rims

[Chris Taylor <chtaylo4@vt.edu>]

>After all this paint job discussion and a bit of the rim choice ive come up
>with a hybrid question..
>what about painting rims???
>Hhah
>Cause you see I have a potentialy cool situation:
>(4) MSW type 21's (i think) in cheeeesy gold
>(4) BBS's 5 star with white painted around them.
>
>I really want to paint the BBS's black and ditto with the MSW's.  A friend of
>mine showed me an experiment of his... he spraypainted one of his safty tires
>all black with several (ok a ton) of krylon spraypaint.  The thing looked
>beautiful.. i mean really good. Weather it would last with day to day use is
>another question.  Soooo any comments??

I *did* suggest to VWCrazy tim to get those very same MSW 21's and paint
them black, did I not?  My other set of rims is a set of lame-ass cheap-o
trendy piece-of-shasta 5-point (star) AMERICAN RACING RIMS.  Ugh!  However,
I have a black car.  I painted the actual star black and left the lip
silver.  Of course, I painted RIGHT OVER the ARE symbol, too.  Now, they
look kick-ass.  I have my auto-x tires mounted on them now.  I might put
snow tires on them.  However, since I only autox w/ them, and I only used
them 2x in it, I have like 6 miles on them!  But I don't see any reason at
all why the paint wouldn't hold.  I did in 2 days, so it's not a big
operation.  Paint costed pennies, too.  The black rim/silver lip also looks
cool on silver cars, too.  Get those 21's in cheesy gold and paint RIGHT
OVER 'em.  

Chris Taylor 
'87 16v Scirocco

West Ambler Johnston Hall
Virginia Tech Campus
chtaylo4@vt.edu
chtaylo4@aol.com

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