Just bought a set of my favorite wheels - now to restore them!
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wow, all the love for the cup 1's! opened this thread expecting to see something far more exotic, but i agree that cup 1's are the simple, basic best looking 5 spoke wheel.
also, all the talk of "black chrome" is scaring me. anything sounding like, resembling, close to or even mildly adjacent to chrome is a sin in my book. not only is chrome so chintzy looking, but it ruins the wheel. chrome + aluminum=corrosion which never goes away. ask me how i know; my cup wheels were chrome when i bought them. i painted them black and now 5 years later i've had leaking wheels ever since i bought them. the tire shop says they can grind the bead but it will eventually leak again and i finally bought metal screw-on valve stems and now i've stopped the leaking on all but one. i'm sure there are ways to prevent the chrome from destroying the aluminum but i doubt many places actually bother.
anyways, forgive me if the black chrome is in no way chrome. but still, just paint them black if you want them black. uhh, that'll solve the embarrassment of actually having to tell people that the wheels on your car are "black chrome!"
also, all the talk of "black chrome" is scaring me. anything sounding like, resembling, close to or even mildly adjacent to chrome is a sin in my book. not only is chrome so chintzy looking, but it ruins the wheel. chrome + aluminum=corrosion which never goes away. ask me how i know; my cup wheels were chrome when i bought them. i painted them black and now 5 years later i've had leaking wheels ever since i bought them. the tire shop says they can grind the bead but it will eventually leak again and i finally bought metal screw-on valve stems and now i've stopped the leaking on all but one. i'm sure there are ways to prevent the chrome from destroying the aluminum but i doubt many places actually bother.
anyways, forgive me if the black chrome is in no way chrome. but still, just paint them black if you want them black. uhh, that'll solve the embarrassment of actually having to tell people that the wheels on your car are "black chrome!"
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I have a set of the optional 968 cup wheels – 8 & 9 x 17. They are polished. I bought them with a new set of Hoosiers on them about a decade ago, and had an ‘incident’ on the track. When I striped the tires of the inside of the rim has a signature and the phrase “Brumos Racing” hand written…..now I don’t know what to do with them! They are sort of collectable…..!
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