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cheap wheel tricks 120-130

posted by  someone claiming to be wheelyv on  Fri May 28 13:10 CST 2004 [RELATED]


I'm having some old wheels media-blasted at a powder-coating company right now. I'm debating whether to have them coated, or maybe just get them back blasted and try to spray paint them mhself. I hanker to have them widened to 7" or so some day, so I'm debating whether it's worth the investment of coating them now rather than later. Unfortunately I can't afford to have them widened AND coated right now.

So... anybody have postive success with spray painting wheels themselves? If so... what kind of can-paint did you use? I noticed that IPD's vintage catalague lists a silver type of highly-durable paint, but I'm thinking I might go with a white...





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