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[ERA Chas]

Your sketch-up looks fine. Let's just complete this make-over by removing the rubber soles on the roll bars. Seriously, if you must, just reattach them when you have a passenger that worries about basal skull fractures.
We know your skull is fractured already so you don't need one. I flew the thing everywhere for 27 years and only fractured the shift handle.
You're getting close to an 'all-of-a-piece' look now; black stripe, bars, pipes and jacks. Bring the wheel centers to the body, polish the lips and you're very much better.
Just LOSE the foam-it screams 'homemade' to an otherwise beautiful ERA product.
I'm going through the archives now to find you a wheel shot.

[ERA Chas]

Sorry-they're not so hi-res. Taken in 2005 right after dismounting and media blasting centers and full polish.
The open header shot is badly color shifted but you can see how clean the base mag really is.
The full shot is very close on color balance to in-person viewing. Those are Hoosiers at the time and your Avons will look very much like that.
I didn't give you later shots because the centers turn from heat very soon. Aluminum won't do that."

[patrickt]

Here is the Chas front wheel put on my car and slightly adjusted for the change in sunshine.

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Here is the Chas front wheel put on my car and slightly adjusted for the change in sunshine.

If you are going to change the wheel color, I think think you need to use the same color on the sidepipes, stripes, quick jacks and rollbar. If someone actually makes the mag wheels for RodKnock, maybe that guy could make mag sidepipes, quick jacks and rollbars too.

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

Your sketch-up looks fine. Let's just complete this make-over by removing the rubber soles on the roll bars. Seriously, if you must, just reattach them when you have a passenger that worries about basal skull fractures.

Here's a much better solution for the roll bar padding:

Head Rest Cushion Head Rest Cushion [] - $495.00 : Acton Custom Enterprises, Custom Metal for Cobras

[patrickt]

OK, since deep down I have a modicum of respect for Chas' color eye, here's what I did to see if he's right. I shot a large poster board with my car's base color. I then shot the middle third of that board with clear coat flat. So the outer thirds on this pic are base coat only - middle third is base coat and clear coat flat. Now, a flash shot does not give true colors, but what I was really looking for was the no gloss look for my wheels. Not even a matte. I don't know if you can tell that or not from this shot, but it's a nice flat of my base color. I think it will look nice inside the Trigos, but I'll mock it up further.