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not wanting to put these on since i dont have a show car or a amreican styled 80's car but they do look preety nice and i was wondering how this is done?

is it by paint or do you have to buy a special branded tyre?

80's????. Try like 60's lol

In answer to your question.
Both, they were originally manufactured like that. But now in the 21st century when there isnt a huge demand for them, some companies can paint your tires for that effect. I did see somewhere (may have been american company) that still makes them for the hot rodding community.

Goodyear and BF Goodrich still make whitewalls, white letters, and red walls.
But, they are only avail to the states, can be special ordered in, but cost a lot.

Its simply a process of a machine spraying on a layer after the tyre has come from the mold and after trimming.
Nothing hard.

You can get insets that go in front of the tyre and behind the lip of the rim, these are prone to braking if driven at speed though.

actually a few companys still make them as above and some more but not very popular unless for old rolls or 60s car etc they only come in a small range of sizes to suit those certain cars and i think they look bloody awful! but yeah you can get any tire done like that if you really want but paint tends to fade unlike the factory spec ones which are made that way

It can actually be manually done to any tyre. All the mini shows I've been to over the years, there's always old cars with them on looking mint. Like the red walled Dunlop Aquajets that came standard on the GTHO Phase III Falcons. I aked one guy & he had a bloke that made them for him in his old garage. Reckoned he had like a tyre lathe almost, that he spun the wheels up on & carved out the section for the colouring with a hot blade (much like cutting tyre tread) - then all he had to do was fill the carved out section with whatever colour they wanted.

what type of paint would they use?

It wasn't paint, from memory its a 'rubber like' filler

rubber filler? because i've noticed the growing trend in the s2000 clubs and esecially at autosalon.

i dont think it could be done to my tyres (not that i want to put an american style on a jap car) because the tyre specs and brand name on the outside would get in the way

Ollie has them on his car:

i used to have them on my old fto

whats they do is jack the car up and place a machine with rollers attacthed to the side, the rollers sit under your tyre and rotate it then whoever is doing them uses like a grinder with a specialised bit and takes a a small amount of rubber out of your tyre.He then uses a small paint roller and holds this to your tyre, whilst the rollers still spin the wheel, and it fills up the area of rubber just removed with the paint

if anyone is looking at getting them done my mate arthur does them:0412460400

thanx

ugh chromies

you have to admit those blue/whitewalls do look sweet.

$5 liquid paper pen FTW!

*~delightful!~* look if you ask me. Would be much tougher/better if you had a set of good tyres and got the brand and model letters done in white (one of my mates into bikes does this...looks frigging awesome).

Yoky Y352's ftw!

^^^^^^^ f**k YES. if only

If anyone white walls their tyres on a fto im gonna laugh so hard at how *~delightful!~* you are