![]() |
Register or Log In To remove these advertisements. |
|
|
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
![]() |
#1 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Seymour, IN
Posts: 42
|
Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
I got a really god deal on a set of Cragar SS wheels with tires for my '71 last weekend. The only drawback is that they have the typical little chrome bubbles on a couple of them and the chrome rim on one has a nice rust ring around it.
They'll clean up good enough to look good from a distance, but I was thinking about painting them with some charcoal grey or cast aluminum paint. I hate fake chrome paint, so that's not an option. I would just like to dress them up a little pit. Cragar is actually selling them with a cast center and black center now, so this could just look like another variation. If anybody has done this, I would be intersted in seeing them. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
Senior Member
![]() Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: New Madison, Ohio
Posts: 21,365
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
This might be an out of the box idea but ... how about powder coating them either gloss black or a gray?
__________________
A husband can be right...or...A husband can be happy. ![]() 67-72 Chevy and GMC Trucks...The Classic Truck for the Classic Folk. ![]() 1970 CST Two tone green, 402BB, 400 Automatic, Tach, Buckets, AC, AM-FM, Tilt, GM CB, GM 8 Tract, LWB, etc ![]() ![]() JOHN 17:3...The better side of "LIFE" Remember: Everyday is a good day...Some are just gooder! |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 | |
Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: St. Paul MN.
Posts: 1,996
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: daytonabeach
Posts: 22,956
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
i've blasted off the cheapo chrome that's on craeger rims and painted them black many years ago
__________________
71c-10 350/2004r/4:11 lowered3/4 longbed/dead by hurricane MEANING OF DEATH::::: SOMEBODY ELSE GETS YOUR STUFF DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK TAKE MY ADVISE;I DON'T USE IT ANYWAY |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
SLOW BUT SURE,BUT CLOSER
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: eleanor wv usa
Posts: 3,093
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Try a $6 can of Rust-o-leum Hammered in your choice of color. After your clean the flaked chrome. I used it on my ralleys.
__________________
69 C-10, OWNED 35YRS... 350 over 30, 350 Turbo, 3:73 Posi P/S, P/B Black with red and black int. ''LOVE THESE OLD ''TRUCKS....... ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: indisclosed
Posts: 1,515
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Yes, and they don't look so hot up close.
Maybe from 30 or 40 feet they look ok. But then again, i wasn't really concerned about looks----i just wanted to be able run an 11.5 wide slick at the time; They are 15X10. i will try to get a picture up by tomorrow. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Grand PooBaa Member
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: LA, CA
Posts: 5,302
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Before I painted my chrome rallyes due to some flaking and rust issues, I used a product called Neva Dull from Kragen/O'Riley auto parts. The chrome came up nice but in the end I painted it anyway.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 |
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Seymour, IN
Posts: 42
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Thanks for the replies guys!
As soon as someone could get a picture up that would be great. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#9 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: indisclosed
Posts: 1,515
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Sorry it took me so long to post the picture; i'm a challenged individual---mentally, physically, socially and otherwise.
Anyways: ![]() Maybe they don't look as bad as i thought. i used, i think, crylon or rustoleum silver. Again, i wasn't concerned about looks; i just bought them because they had some nice 11.5 slicks mounted on them which i wanted at the time. As a suggestion, i think rustoleum has a new "hand hammered finish" spray which i used last summer painting a fence and it really looked good. You might look into that. Oh yes, i see weasle29 mentioned that. Last edited by C-10 simplex; 01-20-2010 at 11:57 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: san bernardino ca. everywhere
Posts: 3,938
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
so where's the after pics?
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#11 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: indisclosed
Posts: 1,515
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Um...yeah---these are the after pics; They really didn't look so hot before, and i'm not the type that really cares about looks that much---function over form. i'm not the type that's into the thousands$$$ paint jobs, chrome etc. Which tells you how bad these wheels were for me to paint them.
Anyways, i think you, cutlassman, could could make a set look good with some effort. i had a flash yesterday----i was thinking that a set painted yellow might look good; Picture like a yellow 442(or truck) with a set of yellow S/S's on them---i think it might work. Or maybe black and yellow----the spokes yellow and the rim black. Or vice-versa. It might work. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#12 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: san bernardino ca. everywhere
Posts: 3,938
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
all i see is a dirty rusty wheel lol. so thats the after, if so it looks like maybe some steel wool would help out.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#13 |
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: indisclosed
Posts: 1,515
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
The other thing that stuck me is yellow body, red wheels. i think that would work, be cool, and be different. Or red body, yellow wheels.
The reason why i'm on a 442 kick is because i saw a picture of a yellow one, but it, yellow/red theme, could probably work for trucks also. Leave the centre caps chrome though. Last edited by C-10 simplex; 01-23-2010 at 03:29 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#14 |
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Kansas city
Posts: 756
|
Re: Anybody ever paint a set of Cragar S/S's
Those didn't happen to have a set of old hoosier slicks on them did they? Those look exactly like some I sold at a northern Missouri swap meet a year or so ago.
__________________
***My 84 short bed build up***** http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...68#post3481968 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Bookmarks |
|
|