Been playing again

[saintz]

I found a tin of white/grey rubber paint in the Garage from the days of my PT Cruiser with white lettering on the tyres.
I hate the look of low profiles so I had a go at painting the letters, this give an optical illusion of the wheel looking bigger.
I then sorted the curbing with a nice blue ring around the alloys, this will make it a lot easyer to fix if I scrape them this summer until I get them re-furbed late next year.
Oh well heres my first one I did

 

[SVTRacer]

that looks awesome. i like it.

can't wait to see them all done and on the car

 

[ryanblacksvt]

I am not a fan of white lettered tires, but those do look good man.

 

[CSVT1214]

Blue ring looks pretty sweet, but those white letters have to go. :nonono:

 

[saintz]

but those white letters have to go. :nonono:

Erm.....................No :laugh:

 

[imnotacop420]

you never see low profile with white letters, I like it!

How does that hold up? Does tire shine stain the white or anything?

 

[saintz]

you never see low profile with white letters, I like it!

How does that hold up? Does tire shine stain the white or anything?

I have had the tin for years, last's quite well the only thing I can fault is the front ones tend to go grey with the brake dust.

I solved this by adding a little black plasti-Kote paint in with it so it shows light grey on all tyres

 

[kscontourkid]

that looks sweet!

 

[99RedCSVT]

Looks pretty good man. Get it on the car! Then take a pic!

 

[saintz]

Looks pretty good man. Get it on the car! Then take a pic!

I will do, it is raining here in England at the moment so will do the other 2 and take some pictures in the morning

 

[volfan98]

looks great, what size is that wheel?

 

[saintz]

looks great, what size is that wheel?

They are 18's

 

[jolly8286]

looks good, but IMO i would paint the interior of the wheel black and leave the blue ring and white letters. I think it would really set it off. but that's my opinion, looks good none the less.

 

[saintz]

looks good, but IMO i would paint the interior of the wheel black and leave the blue ring and white letters. I think it would really set it off. but that's my opinion, looks good none the less.

I want to have them cleaned and painted late this year, nice idea thanks

 

[gdub520]

only two places where white letter tires looked good...indy cars and the 70's :laugh:

have to see them on the car to really get the idea of how it looks...

 

[saintz]

only two places where white letter tires looked good...indy cars

..

Then you should be proud, someone from England wants to copy an American racing icon :shrug:

:laugh:

 

[Recoveryone]

This just goes to show how young many of you are. Back inb the day 70's-80,s low pro's came with white lettering, I had a set of BF Goodrich T/A comp's low pro on my old Pinto (I think there should be a pic on the forms somewhere). during the 90's and more Japanese and Euro brands tires came with black out sidewalls. American tires were known for the white lettering, Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich.

 

[saintz]

This just goes to show how young many of you are. Back inb the day 70's-80,s low pro's came with white lettering, I had a set of BF Goodrich T/A comp's low pro on my old Pinto (I think there should be a pic on the forms somewhere). during the 90's and more Japanese and Euro brands tires came with black out sidewalls. American tires were known for the white lettering, Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich.

A style I always loved in the 70's and 80's, I remember it well as I am 38 :laugh:

The car I always wanted as a kid was the Smokie and the Bandit Trans-Am but pleased I never bought one with petrol at £1-09p ($2.20 give or take) a Ltr over here now.