[Spridgets] Just mounted my wheels and tires

Linda Grunthaner grunthaner at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 14:28:01 MDT 2012


Awesome : )
I love the love,
Lin

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:50 PM, brian S <bugeye15 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well Dave,
>
> It was a case of Shipwright's disease.
> After I remounted my tires and wheels, I was looking at yours and they were
> dirty on the backside.
> So,   I powerwashed them.
> Some of the paint had peeled off and they looked a bit ratty.
> Welllll, I have some gloss black Rustoleum paint, so I'll just scrub em with a
> scotchbrite pad and throw a couple
> coats of paint on them.
> Hmmm, that looked pretty good.
> But then I turn them around and look, wellll, the backs look too good to let
> the front side not look real purty too.
> Some rust was showing through the silver paint and it had peeled around the
> bolt holes.
> Well, I had some silver wheel paint, so I threw a couple coats of that on.
>
> Dave had saved me a boatload of $$ by not having to buy new tires, (yet)
>
> It was the least I could do.....
>
> Thanks for the loan of YOUR stuff Dave, helped me out a ton!
>
> You are right, That kind of stuff makes this list FAN freaking TASTIC.
>
>
> Brian S.
> Bugeyeracer finally resto'ed!
> Thanks to Frank C.!
>
>
>> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:18 -0700
>> From: tncarnut1 at yahoo.com
>> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
>> Subject: [Spridgets] Just mounted my wheels and tires
>>
>> Stopped by Brian's house earlier this morning to pick up the wheels & tires
> I
>> loaned him so his BE could pass inspection. (wonder why they had a problem
>> with fat sticky shallow-grooved racing tires?) As we were walking up to
> them
>> in the drive, I thought something along the lines of "cool - he washed them
> up
>> for me". Then I got a little closer and realized they had not looked nearly
>> this good when we mounted them up to his car a couple of weeks ago. "Did
> you
>> paint them for me?" "Yeah - I had the paint laying around..." They look
> brand
>> new. Black on the inner sides, silver on the outer sides. Wow - Thanks
> Brian!
>> What a great surprise.
>>
>> Just got back from mounting them up and taking the
>> car off the jack stands and they look amazing. Another example of what
> makes
>> Spridgeteering with this group a lesson of how things should work
> everywhere.
>>
>> Thanks again, Brian.
>>
>>  - David
>> Long Island
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