just thought these were worth sharing with you, as they were at one time for sale but the owner, Colin, changed his mind, clearly once he'd seen a photo of what i'd done with them!
To begin with, they are a pretty rare size of 13" by 7j wide, not the usual 6j's, and are a lovely design, adorning a number of Suds and Sprints over the years. They are as many of you will recognise, Ronal A1's.
They had been previously powder coated, and looked ok, so we agreed that a good polish to the dish and rim would provide a nice contrast, so that was the plan.
So they went from this
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To this
Not bad, but if i'm honest, i wasn't impressed, and the contrast just didn't look right to me, so i convinced Colin to let me have some artistic license and change the centre colour to a nice silver rather than what now reminded me far too much of primer!
Matching it up on the centre caps aswell, i think they are a whole lot nicer now, looking like this
Now i think they look the mutts nutts, but unless you promise to cross Colins palm with many bits of silver, he';s keeping them i think!
Secondly, another set of wheels i'm doing for Colin, is a set of original Sud steelies, that have had 2" added to them by banding them with an extra steel strip. These are going to be finished now in a good solid silver powder coat, and will look fantastic with some nice dish to them and the better/bigger tyre option is a big bonus too.
I can't take the credit for the banding on these, and John at Justsuds has already done a few himself too, but its oddly well timed as i'm right in the middle of doing some banding myself on my old van steelies that have been sat around teasing me into trying it now for ages.
Ive done the easy bit, cutting them into sections, and have since shotblasted them to give me the perfect virgin surface to weld back up, so i'm just waiting for my steel to arrive and time to get the mig sizzling!
watch here for updates in the near future
