Outlaw color is Ferrari Grigio Silverstone ...a dark gray metallic . When the body gets back from paint, I'll tape the outer rim on one of the 17" wheels, spray the tape with the body color to see if it had eye appeal.
@Alan Merklin posted:I'm not using the 15" Airkewled chrome center smoothie rims because I can't come up with a color for the outer rim to go along with the dark gray body paint.
@Alan Merklin posted:When the body gets back from paint, I'll tape the outer rim on one of the 17" wheels, spray the tape with the body color to see if it had eye appeal.
Do one with the outer rim in a bright chrome powdercoat. I think that will be the winner.
@Stan Galat posted:Do one with the outer rim in a bright chrome powdercoat. I think that will be the winner.
Good idea Stan , I'll wrap some aluminum foil over the outer rim then stand back ten feet to see how the chrome might look. I just don't like the low profile 40 side walls but we'll see.
@Alan Merklin posted:Good idea Stan , I'll wrap some aluminum foil over the outer rim then stand back ten feet to see how the chrome might look. I just don't like the low profile 40 side walls but we'll see.
I hear you, Al - but you have these, they're rare as hen's teeth, the brakes work with them, and there's no shortage of 17" summer performance tires.
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@Alan Merklin posted:Outlaw color is Ferrari Grigio Silverstone ...a dark gray metallic . When the body gets back from paint, I'll tape the outer rim on one of the 17" wheels, spray the tape with the body color to see if it had eye appeal.
Chrome/silver will look good, but it's been done. What about going a shade or 2 darker than the body color?
Just a thought, but black on the outer rims would be very outlaw-ish and might solve the visual issue of the short sidewalls. The polished aluminum center and hubs are about 15" in diameter, so maybe it could tick a box?
@JMM (Michael) posted:Just a thought, but black on the outer rims would be very outlaw-ish and might solve the visual issue of the short sidewalls. The polished aluminum center and hubs are about 15" in diameter, so maybe it could tick a box?
The 7 x 17 wheels are as new and shod with new Kuhmo's so maybe the best approach is to try these combo ideas and see if it works visually..... Just got back from the machine shop that has my buggered up stub axle for a week now with a promise to have it ready tomorrow..... Then I can put the rotors and caliper back on bleed the Neal brakes and see if the calpiers are good.
Edit: Just found out my speedster body will be delayed a week plus as paint guy Tommy took this week off because.... last week he fell in love and headed to Jamaca for this week to consummate the relationship or something along those lines ~
We had that happen when we were building our house, back in 1978.
Our framers got it closed in and buttoned up and then announced that they were headed to Hawaii for a month to build a house for their brother.
WAIT.... WHAT????
@Gordon Nichols posted:We had that happen when we were building our house, back in 1978.
Our framers got it closed in and buttoned up and then announced that they were headed to Hawaii for a month to build a house for their brother.
WAIT.... WHAT????
Super-common. Like SUPER-DUPER-common.
Residential carpenters (even good ones) remind me of John 3:8:
"The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes".
I once had a carpenter pull off my deck job because, "He was just not getting good vibes". I'd love to live like that for a couple of years.
He was just not getting good vibes". Bwaaahaaaaa!
Eh Man you wanna do that deck job like ummmm maybe next Tuesday man ?
I've always overloaded myself, but this was more than 10 years ago, at the peak of trying to keep a dozen or more balls in the air at the same time.
When he said that, I looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language.
He pulled off anyhow. I mailed him a check, and hired another guy to finish. He came back after a couple of months when he ran out of money (I guess "the muse" was upon him again by that point), but the deck was already done.
That was the last time I hired Bob, but even the good guys are pulling off to go do something else, post-Covid.
There's a special word for these guys in Colorado. They work like hell all summer and then snowboard all winter.
@Alan Merklin posted:He was just not getting good vibes". Bwaaahaaaaa!
Eh Man you wanna do that deck job like ummmm maybe next Tuesday man ?
I think he is burning the evidence before the stop.
Outlaw / Berrien / Mendeola chassis photos.... Had to order special short 15-5/8" torsion drive axles.... and waiting on the body to get back from being painted.
Specs: Berrien 2 x 2 square & round tube chassis extended 8" w/ square sleeves 10 Gauge floors with 2" drop in seat area. VW frame horns w/ narrowed IRS trailing arms. Mendeola suspension w/ tubular A arms, R & P steering. Fox adjustable nitrogen filled shocks w/ QA-1 250 375lb. nitrogen springs, sway bars and kafer bar Neal disc brakes with aluminum two piston calipers. Built up Type 1 transmission by John Brown (specs listed previously) Vintage speed shifter. Auto Stick HD starter. Moblewagen 5.5 x 15 x 205mm # 520 P polished aluminum wheels. Tunnel tubes, lines, & tunnel cover hand fabricated.
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