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Painted My Rims #443846 Apr 16, 6:47pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago Here are some pics 1

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443847 Apr 16, 6:47pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago 2

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443848 Apr 16, 6:48pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago 3

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443849 Apr 16, 6:48pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago Finished

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443850 Apr 16, 7:24pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,694 Tampa, Florida Polykarb Metal Storm 2040 2000 Toyota Celica Polykarb Metal Storm 2040 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,694 Tampa, Florida Good job, nice color BTW!

Re: Painted My Rims Polykarb #443851 Apr 16, 7:50pm Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 55 Massachusetts bigants036 Member 2000 Toyota Celica bigants036 Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 55 Massachusetts thats a lottttt of paper towels.

Re: Painted My Rims bigants036 #443852 Apr 16, 8:02pm Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 184 Flemington, NJ Cookie Member 2000 Toyota Celica Cookie Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 184 Flemington, NJ Damn nice work...must've been a bitch to do though.

Re: Painted My Rims Cookie #443853 Apr 16, 8:04pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago Yeah it took a long time, but it was well worth the effort.

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443854 Apr 16, 8:32pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,060 San Francisco, CA gtscelica05 Carbon Blue Rules 2003 Toyota Celica gtscelica05 Carbon Blue Rules 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,060 San Francisco, CA thats nice! BRONZE RULE! Gtscelica05 Carbon Blue

Re: Painted My Rims gtscelica05 #443855 Apr 16, 9:12pm Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 636 Palmdale, California mrluilou Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT mrluilou Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 636 Palmdale, California good job did you just paint them or did you sand down the rims first?

Re: Painted My Rims mrluilou #443856 Apr 16, 9:16pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 945 Nassau,NY PnOyGtS Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica PnOyGtS Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 945 Nassau,NY

Re: Painted My Rims PnOyGtS #443857 Apr 16, 9:54pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 66 California BigJun Member 2000 Toyota Celica BigJun Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 66 California It would look a lot better. If your celica was lowered. Drag

Re: Painted My Rims BigJun #443858 Apr 16, 10:40pm Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 504 Long Beach, CA Joey Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joey Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 504 Long Beach, CA how hard was it to paint with the tires on??

Re: Painted My Rims Joey #443859 Apr 17, 12:55am Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,216 Likes: 1 San Leandro/Davis, CA ToiletPaper Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT ToiletPaper Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,216 Likes: 1 San Leandro/Davis, CA nice

Re: Painted My Rims ToiletPaper #443860 Apr 17, 1:55am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Chelica815 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,869 Likes: 1 San Francisco, CA That's nice. Get clear corners. Aggressively Driven 2000 Celica GT-S 6 Speed

Re: Painted My Rims Chelica815 #443861 Apr 17, 2:31am Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,353 Belgium Veilside Specialist 2004 Toyota Celica GT Veilside Specialist 2004 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,353 Belgium nice job

Re: Painted My Rims Veilside #443862 Apr 17, 2:35am Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 111 Mission Viejo/ El Toro, CA andru514 Member 2004 Toyota Celica andru514 Member 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 111 Mission Viejo/ El Toro, CA very nice

Re: Painted My Rims andru514 #443863 Apr 17, 2:49am Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA Haulin_A_Doo Specialist Haulin_A_Doo Specialist Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA

Re: Painted My Rims Haulin_A_Doo #443864 Apr 17, 2:53am Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 25 London, UK dark_nik Member 2005 Toyota Celica dark_nik Member 2005 Toyota Celica Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 25 London, UK Nice, now just paint the inside of your headlights!

Re: Painted My Rims dark_nik #443865 Apr 17, 8:31am Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 5,125 Philadelphia, PA Sultan Speed Omen 2002 Toyota Celica GT Sultan Speed Omen 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 5,125 Philadelphia, PA

Re: Painted My Rims Sultan #443866 Apr 17, 9:13am Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL nice work

Re: Painted My Rims bmw52786 #443867 Apr 17, 10:39am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL

Re: Painted My Rims hombredelassrtas #443868 Apr 17, 11:25am Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,612 St.George, UT eric_h 2low2slow 2002 Toyota Celica GT eric_h 2low2slow 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,612 St.George, UT reminds me of norwaygt's car A boats a boat, but the mystery box could be anything....Even a boat!

Re: Painted My Rims eric_h #443869 Apr 17, 11:33am Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,578 Chicago, IL xmangt1 4 All U Haterz! 2000 Toyota Celica GT xmangt1 4 All U Haterz! 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,578 Chicago, IL Nice job

Re: Painted My Rims mrluilou #443870 Apr 17, 2:35pm Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT mxmcelica Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 168 Chicago I cleaned them with Simple Green, wet sanded them then cleaned them again. Then I put on the paint with many very light coats. The hardest part was masking everything off. It was a pain in the ass.

Re: Painted My Rims mxmcelica #443871 Apr 17, 4:24pm Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 242 St. Louis Designer_GTS Member 2000 Toyota Celica Designer_GTS Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 242 St. Louis Looks great. I like the bronze/carbon blue color combo.

Re: Painted My Rims Designer_GTS #443872 Apr 17, 4:26pm Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 228 Laguna Niguel,CA Creep1234 Member 2004 Toyota Celica GT Creep1234 Member 2004 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 228 Laguna Niguel,CA well done son The dream of someday racing in the JGTC... drive sideways. -'nough said.

Re: Painted My Rims Creep1234 #443873 Apr 17, 7:09pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 20 Virginia Beach, VA Crizzz Member 2003 Toyota Celica Crizzz Member 2003 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 20 Virginia Beach, VA you definitely need a drop, but the rims turned out good...and don't go for clear corners, JDM sidemarkers would compliment the bronze (dark color) wheels...and how about a kit to go with the wing?

Re: Painted My Rims Crizzz #443874 Apr 17, 8:33pm Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 116 Maine Avatar Member 2000 Toyota Celica Avatar Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 116 Maine Oooo la la

Re: Painted My Rims Avatar #443875 Apr 18, 12:11am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 173 Saskatoon, Sask GTaintsobad Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT GTaintsobad Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 173 Saskatoon, Sask it looks a lot better - what kind of paint did you use?

Re: Painted My Rims GTaintsobad #443876 Apr 18, 4:14am Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,110 Milford, NJ VSGTS14 05 WRB 2005 Subaru WRX STi VSGTS14 05 WRB 2005 Subaru WRX STi Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,110 Milford, NJ black + bronze = teh win SUBARU TECNICA INTERNATIONAL

Re: Painted My Rims VSGTS14 #443877 Apr 18, 7:14am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 992 Springfield, MO Celica2k Jace 2000 Toyota Celica GT Celica2k Jace 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 992 Springfield, MO nice work man

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