prepping 67 wheels

[Michael F.]

what is the best way to prep/clean old steel wheels on a midyear (67) before painting silver??

[Jace H.]

Re: prepping 67 wheels

Michael,

I bead blasted mine and then had them sprayed with semi flat black. Spray the fronts with the Argent silver. Some overspray on the backside is correct.

Jace Holt
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[Rob A.]

Re: prepping 67 wheels

Do you know any suppliers that currently carry argent silver in spray cans?

[Jim W.]

Rowley Corvette Supply

I've used theirs for years. It goes on well and looks great. See the link below. Good luck. Jim

http://rowleycorvette.com/

[Joe L.]

Re: Rowley Corvette Supply

Jim------

Although they're almost 3,000 miles from where I live, believe it or not, I'm familiar with Rowley Corvette Supply. I've never done any business there, but I know EXACTLY where it is. It so happens that when I was visiting the east coast, I used to VERY regularly go to a place in Rowley to eat steamed clams. It was called East End Seafood Restaurant. One summer day when I was sitting in their "enclosed porch" dining area, I was looking out the window and noticed that this old sign at the building next door said "Rowley Corvette"; I'd never noticed what it said before. It was hard to read since it was rather crudely painted over an old service station sign (that's what the building is; it looks like an old Gulf Service Station) and the sign was very deteriorated and rusty. Later, I walked over to the building (which always looked pretty much "abandoned) to me) and noticed that there was a Corvette in the area where the service station office used to be. I don't even know how they got it in there and it was pretty much a "basket case".

I rarely saw any other Corvettes there, at all (and, as I say, when I was in the east, I was at East End Restaurant A LOT). One day, I did see a 66 convertible for sale out in the front. It was Milano Maroon with a beige convertible top. The body looked good so I went over to look at it. The sign in the window said $28,000. I looked underneath it and the frame was absolutely, totally rotted out----EVERYWHERE, not just in the problem areas. Just about the worst frame that I ever saw under a Corvette. A fellow came out to talk to me about it and told me that the price was "rock bottom" for a mid-year and they were firm on it. I told him that I was "just looking". After all, I wanted to be polite.

Alas, East End Seafood Restaurant is no more. It's been replaced by an "All American Barbecue Restaurant". Definitely NOT the kind of place that I'm looking for when I'm in the northeast. I sure do miss East End, though. I ate many a steamed clam there and it was surely one of my favorite spots in the whole world. Nothing fancy, of course, just GREAT steamed clams. My mouth is watering just to think about it. Believe me, when I sit down to eat steamed clams, I CAN EAT steamed clams; yes, indeed. In fact, while the orders were very large at East End (about 35-40 clams), I once had SIX orders there. The woman behind the counter who had gotten to know me pretty well from all of my visits there told me that if I could eat anymore they'd be on the house. I couldn't, though; 6 was all I could eat. For that day, anyway.

I've found other places to go and eat steamed clams but I never found anyplace that I liked better than East End. For clams, it was the GREATEST. Absolutely. Positively. Period.

[Jim W.]

Joe, We have similar habits.

Whenever my wife and I travel, I have my favorite places for certain kinds of food and I waste no time beelining it to them. Once I find one I like, I go back again and again. That winds up my wife though since she likes to try different places. What can I say? Why take a chance on an unknown when you know of a place that's a proven winner? Kind regards, Jim