How hard would it be to paint the tires on the E?. Here's a link that sells a lettering pen: http://www.shop.com/op/aprod-p24034696?sourceid=13
Just curious.

Chris~

I'm a bit baffled as to why you'd want to paint a tire.......or even what color you had in mind. I start imagining tacky white painted tires stacked and split so they "blossom" for "decorative" flower beds or driveway edging. Spraypaint them if you're serious. I have a friend that used to spray her tires with glitter spray just for fun.

Umm.. yea, why?

However, I do remember seeing colored tire shines available. But for the life of me, can't find a company name. Apparently these "shines" would work like any other tire cleaner/shine product in that you spray or wipe it on, but they don't just give your tire that "wet" look, they also add color. (red, blue, green)

If I wanted colored tires, I'd go this route... I don't, but if I did....

For you young-'uns out there, this is old technology from before the days of raised white letter tires and spray on tire shine...when any radial tire meant "high performance". You wiped down your tires with brake fluid and then used a pen like this to outline the logo on the sidewall. It was kind of like a grease pencil. Used to use one on the Pirellis on my '66 MGB-GT.

Thank God they didn't sell Yokohama Geolanders back then.

Heh, Bald Eagle - that reminds me of my older brother's '66 Corvair Corsa. Dark metallic green with a gold beltline crease pinstripe. It had come with Uniroyal Red Line "Tiger Paw" tires, and Mr. Nerd that he was, found a gold metallic grease pencil somewhere and covered the red lines in gold to match. They were marinally smarter then - the red line was recessed instead of raised, where it can be scrubbed on the curb. ;-)

For true nerds, that specific Corvair of his was the first American car to ever street test a prototype front air dam. (He worked as a designer for GM at the time.) That same air dam design became the first stock air dam on an American production automobile.

yea.... crt2000.... have fun with that :)

Done tires both ways, Had a 73 Gremlin that had U.S mags on it but I just couldnt cough up the money for decent tires (Really wanted a set of T/A radials) so out came the bottle of testers flat white model paint and Firestone U,S, X wheels were born, years later I bought an old but nice looking chevy pickup with two whitewalls and two blackwalls, break out the Krylon flat black and BAM! they all match.

haha!, no I wasn't talking about taking a paintbrush to my tires!, I am talking about painting only the raised letters on the tires white, as with the lettering pen. I might do this but I don't know yet. Wondering if anyone else out there has done this.

Chris~

Some tires have black lettering on one side, and white on the other. You can have them mounted with either one showing.

paulj

good point, I'll have to see what the other side of my tire looks like before considering this. Thanks for the info. :)

Chris~

If you really want to get a message across on your tires (rims actually) try a product like this: http://www.tiretagz.com/product.html

too flashy for me though

CRT200,

This reminds me of one of the Semi trucks that delivered to our company. The driver had a white pen for raised letters and when we would be unloading, he would be putting white letters on his tires. I don't know if he ever got it done. If you see a 18 wheeler with white letter tires on it that is probably him.

I got new tires out of my dealer. I looked at the tires in the back side and they have white letters on them. I thought about changing them around. Only problem is that the front tires lettering is different than the back slightly. Same tire manufacturer but, white lettering is different model of tires.

I just left the black wall side out. Sounds like a lot of work. If that is what you want then go for it! I have always liked the look of clean white letter tires. Will you be able to clean the letters once they are done?????

The multi colored tire shine was made by black magic I havn't seen it in a long time on the shelves I used it on the interior of my old sunfire back in high school to make it look different than everone else

Heh, Bald Eagle - that reminds me of my older brother's '66 Corvair Corsa. Dark metallic green with a gold beltline crease pinstripe. It had come with Uniroyal Red Line "Tiger Paw" tires, and Mr. Nerd that he was, found a gold metallic grease pencil somewhere and covered the red lines in gold to match. They were marinally smarter then - the red line was recessed instead of raised, where it can be scrubbed on the curb. ;-)

For true nerds, that specific Corvair of his was the first American car to ever street test a prototype front air dam. (He worked as a designer for GM at the time.) That same air dam design became the first stock air dam on an American production automobile.
I had a 65 Corvair Corsa and also had the Uniroyal red line tires. Regularly out drug my friends 65 Mustang. :lol: