1st Gen guys, pics of meshies?

[P71]

The 14" LE mesh wheels just arrived and I'm torn. Do I leave the centers silver, or do I paint them black, or do I paint them gold? Polish the lips obviously :rofl:

So let's have some pics of meshies, Google searching it didn't do me much good.

[Whizbang]

your car is red im assuming by the avatar? Red and gold is bit 1980s. Black generally goes well with everything. Silver could work as well.

[P71]

It is the red one. I'm asking for guidance because right now my car has a red interior with blue seats and I don't see anything wrong with it. :rofl:

[Rogue_Wulff]

Not exactly meshies, but here's a general idea of a red car with black center/polished lip wheels.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh32/Wulff918/Oct122nd2005MazdaMeet017-2.jpg

More pics located at: http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh32/Wulff918/?start=0

[PercentSevenC]

I personally like the look of black mesh with polished lip, but I've also seen gold or silver mesh on red cars, and they all look good.

[one320fc]

Black mesh w/ polish... IMO

[P71]

They're outside being de-painted right now. I picked up some bronze wheel paint on the way home. Does anybody have pics? I have black, bronze, white, and silver paint now not to mention about a gallon of Mother's for the "all-polish". What do I do? (Cause if it was up to me alone they'd probably end up blue or something because I have no taste... :rofl: )

[Rogue_Wulff]

I've always been partial to the look of black center/polished lip on red cars. This combo also works quite well on most any other color car. Unlike some other combos....

Totally polished, or silver centers, also work well on many colors, but not as well as black, in my opinion.

[WE3RX7]

BRONZE :)

Sorry - I'm a gold and bronze junky...

[josh18_2k]

i say do one side silver, and the other black. or whatever combination of two you like.
no one will ever see the left and right sides at the same time, so why not!

i dont think bronze and red go well together.

[P71]

^ Says the person with a four-color FC :rofl:

They're drying out now, all the paint is off. I think I might actually go for Gunmetal...

[Onlyonthurs]

My Fb with the old LE meshes that i painted black :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/FB.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/DSC_0081.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/6-1.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/DSCN2880.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/MyRide4.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b398/Onlyonthurs/DSCN2462.jpg

hope these pics help

[Whizbang]

Pete (Peejay) has a nice set of 15" meshie wheels from the day. He currently uses them for rally crossing.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Tsunami_Bomb/IMG_3085.jpg

[P71]

Ooooooh! The black ones look nice!

Stupid me found a set of old-school 6-spokes on CL yesterday though...

[josh18_2k]

nothing wrong with wheel whoring.

[Nutsid]

I have the LE wheels for my FB. When the time comes they are getting painted black with polished lip. It'll go very well with my white and black themed FB. Tinted windows, white car, black side moulding, white decals. lol Getting the wheels to add a bit more black would be nice, and I have the targa band so the polish would semi-decently match the metal in the band.

If you look at Marcello's (OnlyOnThurs) you will see pretty much what mine looks like without the targa band. He has different wheels on it now, though.

[one320fc]

maybe some one could photoshop your car with the different color choices. I would but but I lost my stupid CS2 disk :banghead:

[P71]

Too late!

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7799/20070101p101006363gp6.jpg

How's this for a teaser? ;)

[P71]

http://www.rotarycarclub.com/showthread.php?t=3910

[Eatmyclutch]

If you do anything, DO NOT PAINT BLACK! Black wheels look ghetto.

edit: gold/bronze wheels ftw^^^ They look good.

[rotarycrew]

holy crap. are thoes the ones i sold you?! how's you get the lip so shiny?

i just picked up another set to put the limited back to stock and will be repainting them.

[P71]

Lots of elbow grease! It took about 10 hours and quite a bit of materials to do (oven cleaner, pressure washer, sandpaper, mothers, paint, masking tape). I don't mess around!