It has been a long, cold winter, but we made it through. Back onto that last wheel now. I brought the spare inside and prepped it for paint. It's important that I don't get overspray on the tire, since it is a good tire and goes back in the car. Not bad. Not bad at all. I thin...
Back in Part 1, I painted the first wheel, but apparently didn't remember to take pictures or document the process. Apparently, I did a little better at that part in this installment. After the first one, I reversed the process. After wire brushing and cleaning up with acetone...
That title is probably over-selling it. Whatever the end result is, it will probably be a lateral promotion. The steel wheels are pretty rusty, so needed quite a bit of cleanup. They had also apparently been roughly painted with brushed on gray house paint at some point. They...
With a truck load of tires and wheels, I drove down to my local tire shop and waited three hours while they got everything mounted up. Back home, the Empi wheels went straight on. They spent far too long stacked up in the basement. I love them. The offset is super-tough lookin...
So, I never listed the beetlebug for sale. I still have mixed feelings about it. But, here we are... The car came with two sets of "new" tires when I bought it. The ones on the Empi wheels, I'm pretty sure had about 100 miles on them, but were eight or ten years old and had dr...
As I was poking around, I finally found an actual rust hole. If this is as bad as it gets, then the old girl is doing pretty OK. This is at the top left corner above the engine bay, behind the air vent louvers. Not even sure how you would get up in there to fix it. Next, the h...