Wheel Whoring
Well I’m a wheel whore I admit it I like nice rims! So if a set of wheels appear that need a bit of work I’m always willing to have a look. At the start of the year a set of 18″ Mercedes Avantguards came up on Edition 38 that had been paint stripped but needed finishing off. So I stripped them down and gave them to Rainbow Polishers to have mirror polished. Rainbow did an amazing job they looked the business but, I was going to have some stretched rubber put on them then put them on my MK5 Golf.
But I’m only keeping the Golf till early next year when I’ll be having my mom’s A3 so there’s no real point in doing much to it. So I was thinking of selling the Mercedes rims until a set of Audi A6 BBS split rims showed up on Edition 38. I pm’d the guy selling them and asked if he was interested in a straight swap for my mercs which he agreed to so now I have these 19″ x 9″ BBS rims for the Audi.
They need stripping and polishing so they will be off to Rainbow in the near future I’ll post the finished result when there done.
Productive Day for the MK1 Polo project
Had a good chat with Greg Howell at Southam Bodies today. He gave me some real good advice regarding the welding we need done. He’s also going to come over to see the Polo once we have finished the prep work and quote us on the full respray.
Also spoke to a polishing company in Yoxal Staffordshire about polishing the wheels we’ve brought for the Polo I’m not saying what they are but there going to look very special!
Finally I’ve been chatting to Simon Jackson editor of Retro Cars and fellow MK1 Polo owner. He’s lowered his Polo on coilovers and transplanted a 1.3 engine with bike carbs, something I’d like to do to ours at a later stage. Its good to be able to speak to people going through the same problems.
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Well i’m going to have a go at polishing a set of Mercedes rims i’ve had sitting around for a couple of months. There off a CL 600 S600 coupe, so i’m buying a small sander and brought a polishing set of a guy on Edition 38. I’ll post the progress and results!