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Stuart,
First, the wheels were blasted clean of the powder coating. Once clean, I scuffed the outer lip with a green pad and scuffed the center.
Then we shot the inner portion of the wheel with paint we formulated based on the color match to the original wheel; all while spinning the wheel at low RPM on the polisher. The original wheel had that dull, faded gold finish that was present on many of the Cobra II wheels in the 60's. We then added some flat black and some graphite to the paint cup and dusted the wheel lightly in the center and more heavily on the outside portion...really trial and error to get the desired look.....add some dirt and brake dust by driving and there you go....
Once we got the first wheel done through some trial and error the other 3 went quickly-maybe an hour for all 4 not counting the blast time.
The paint is an acrylic PPG product-not sure of the code, custom mixed. If you have a good local auto paint jobber, they should be able to do it easily.
The hard part may be to get the Halibrand for them to color match.
Hope this helps,
GRUFF
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