Glass setting tape

Discussion in '1947-1954' started by Limey Trucker, Nov 12, 2010.

  1. Limey Trucker

    Limey Trucker Member

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    They are indeed, I bought 4 wheels and tyres on ebay for £28 because the seller forgot to put a reserve on.

    Poor fella was almost crying when I went to collect them, so I added insult to injury and gave him 30 quid and told him to keep the change hahaha.

    I only bought them to push the truck around on. The backspace and offset is all wrong as they are a little bit too far inboard and the tyre rubs the pick up bed sides,and the one wheel rubs on the caliper in certain place around the circumference, might be egg shaped wheel :)

    I intend on buying steel smoothies with chrome centre hub caps and whitewalls, just like they should look :) funds permitting.

    I know the colours aren't standard but with all the metallic and pearlescant paints out there its very difficult to make a truck look like it came from the 40's. That is Volvo beige ( I call it hearing-aid beige lol ) in gloss and Renault Bordeaux with a 30% gloss reduction to make it look aged a little. I went through about 3000 colour swatches to find a combo that worked for me at least.
     

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