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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 07:59 PM
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Polished the GTA's

I finally got around to polishing and repainting my spare set of gtas. I bought 4 of them on ebay for $350 that were supposed to be "like new" only to find out that 2 of them were bent almost as bad as the two bent ones on my car So I'm using the 2 best out of my wheels and 2 of the ones that i bought lol. These are the two that i polished today. I am gonna have to finish the other 2 on the car tomarrow.
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 08:01 PM
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What they look liked before:
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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And heres what their gonna be replacing: The front right and left rear wheels were bent pretty bad by the previous owner. I'm still surprised the beads even seat!
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 08:11 PM
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what the hell hapend?
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 08:14 PM
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The guy said he let his wife borrow the car He didnt know how she did it exactly.

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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 08:25 PM
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did you just use spray paint to paint them or did you use something else?
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Old Jun 12, 2004 | 01:04 AM
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Yup. I stripped them, taped everything off, primed, and painted using high gloss black cheapo spray paint I'll get picks of all 4 done and on the car this weekend
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Old Jun 12, 2004 | 08:24 AM
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looks good i did mine this winter aswell, lots of sanding for the alum part, and all by hand for me

heres one poor quality pic from my cell phone lol
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