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Rice or Nice??????

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Old 04-04-2005, 04:42 AM
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Default Rice or Nice??????

Well I have a set if 17" Firehawk wheels (painted) that I want to mount up on my Formula. The plans were to polish them out for the chrome look but my buddy brought up a good idea to paint them white? Keep in mind the car is Navy Blue Metallic and I think the white might set of the car nice? Not sure just a thought.... So what do you all think?
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Too much for me but if your happy with it, then do it.
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I think it would look nice only on nbm though...prolly one of those things you have to see first
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I say do it and make your car stand, and give your car a personality
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post pics if you decide to do it, interested to see how it would look like.
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go for it.......

you will surely be noticed since that would the first i have ever seen
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I've seen a NBM Camaro SS Convertible, with a white top, white seats, and white ZR-1's and is looked good!
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umm.. im thinking total rice. but thats just an opion on my side. im not a big fan of painted wheels other than black w/ the polished lip style.
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Surely a bi*ch to keep clean! Even more so than the silver.
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Default Paint 'em

Originally Posted by 3.8SFITURBO
Well I have a set if 17" Firehawk wheels (painted) that I want to mount up on my Formula. The plans were to polish them out for the chrome look but my buddy brought up a good idea to paint them white? Keep in mind the car is Navy Blue Metallic and I think the white might set of the car nice? Not sure just a thought.... So what do you all think?

I have seen a 99 trans am, navy blue, with white stripes, white leather, and white rims looks beautiful definately do it.!
Old 04-04-2005, 06:50 PM
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I have seen a white firehawk with white wheels and it looked great. They said it was hard to keep the wheels clean though. I know it was not a blue car and everything, but the firehawks looked good in white just me .02
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i dont see how this could be considered rice?? rice is adding something, usually hurting performance, to make your car look like a "race car". ls1 adam, so black is cool but white is rice?? yellow rims are hideous, red is ugly, but i dont think it would be classified as rice, just bad taste. for the record i think it would look badass! powdercoating would be the way to go though
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Try it and post some pictures. They may come out beautiful.
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Thanks for the input guys! I think im gonna do it in a few weeks. I will post pics for sure.
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why dont you photo chop a picture and see how it looks
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hmmm powdercoating.... i do it on the side, pm me if your interested
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i'm with pa z06...although wheels look totally different in person...i hated zr1's until i saw them in person
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I had a 25th Anni TA w/ the White rims, Very hard to keep clean. I say do it though, that would look sweet!!
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Originally Posted by PA Z06
why dont you photo chop a picture and see how it looks
No photo chop on my computer
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I think it would look good only if you had some sorta of white stripe's on your car.



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