Restoring smoothies and brake drums

[Jalexquijano]

What is the correct method to restore old rusted smoothies and their corresponding brake drums.

Shall I sand blast the 5 smoothies and brake drums to take the rust away and then paint the wheels the same color as the car?

What paint and tools shall i use? Im getting these wheels sandblasted tomorrow so i need an advice on the proper restoration method.

[AlteWagen]

Before you have them blasted check them to see if they are true. I had to go thru around 20 rims to find 4 good ones.

After I found a good set I removed the tires, valve stems, and any weights. I scrubbed them down with degreaser and a wire brush then blasted them with a little home blasting gun in a trash can. I took a long time to do them but the many layers of chipped paint and rust. I wiped them down with a surface prep solution right away and sprayed etching and epoxy primer. I then used high temp engine paint and sprayed the entire rim semigloss black. Since these were going on an early vert I then two toned the rims with gloss black outer rim, white inner hub. Lasted years and looked factory

If I were to do it again I would powder coat the rims instead. Much more chip resistant and holds up well to road grime and grease.

The only thing I am not sure about is if on early cars (both verts and sedans) that had both black and white or body color white paint came gloss or semi gloss from the factory.

Anyone know?

[hitest]

Jalex needs to explain his desired outcome a little. What year are we talking about? Do you want a stock paint scheme? Do you want quality work or just paint? Details man- we need details to be helpful to you.

Maybe include some gallery shots of what you like already?
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[shano63]

I believe wheels came in a multiple of color combos. My car, according to it's birth certificate had fog grey and royal blue two tone with the car being gulf blue. But you can paint them anything you want.
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63 T1 Ragtop Gulf Blue
08 Civic 5spd
22 Wrangler 6spd
78 F250 4x4 4spd

Chris

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[Jalexquijano]

These are the pictures of my 1960 Bug, i plan to change to smoothies wheels and paint them the same color as the car. Do you consider appropiate or should i paint them another color. I am planning on purchasing the corresponding hupcaps with the little VW emblem.

One last thing, I will not place whitewall tires on my car. I will keep the same tires shown in the picture.

http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/32c169175bb37a58c73fe0316c0cf5fa5e6ff7d3.JPG

http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/7be36ed3136b5271b4d070c55cafc7cba3afd64e.JPG

[Jeckler]

If that's the factory color, L363 Arctic, then the rim should be L439 Mixture Blue, and the hub L437 White Blue.
Should look like this I'm guessing...

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[AlteWagen]