New life for old Cragars

[kevindahle]

My old Cragars seen better days, so I needed to get new tires and didn't have the heart to put new tires on not so good wheels so I sandblasted and epoxy primed the wheels followed by some SEM Hot Rod black. These are the fronts the rear tires are not in yet.

 

[kevindahle]

This is them still chrome. I will post more with them black. I don't know how I feel about them. I thought I would give them a try.

 

[ssba]

Tricked me with the old cragar in the title. Different wheel came to mind.
Anyway those look like weld pro stars. I think they will look good painted black on
your machine. Cool paint job.

 

[kevindahle]

Yea they are Cragar street stars.
Thanks I painted it 25 years ago that way. same time the wheels were new!

 

[Abodybomber]

The wheels turned out good,love the vintage squirt job!

 

[TF360]

Wheels look great

 

[hemichuck]

Back in the day we would buy Cragers and they would barely make it a year before the rust started peeling the chrome off the aluminum centers. I used to buy Rocket racing wheels because they looked like the Crager SS wheels but they were all steel and wouldn't lose their chrome. I have a set of Crager SS's that I am going to paint and put on my 39 Plymouth.

 

[Brandon Weaver]

Looks quite similar to a wheel I like a lot. Differ'nt brand though...

 

[jos51700]

Color match pin stripe around the rim might set them off a little more?

 

[rumblefish360]

They look good to me. Not my color, but there looking good.

 

[kevindahle]

I was thinking of a pinstripe! Still waiting on my rear tires and new lugs, I feel kinda like a kid waiting for xmas. I have been having more fun with this car in the last 3 months than I did the last 10 years. I have always drove it some but was always on the back burner. I got the car in 1990 and it was my priority then until '94 and I became a family man then it slowly took its place fairly low on the Totem pole.

 

[MMissile]

It's a sin to see all the new and beautiful stuff that comes into my powder-coaters place....just to be blasted and "murdered-out".

 

[kevindahle]

Now and then. went with 255/60-15 on the back 225/60-14 on the front