Tire Stenciling - Old Skool is the New School

[Reaper930]

So why do modern tribute cars look so soft and like they're missing something?

I mean even the guys who daily drive the cars they build to look like race cars, why no tire stenciling?

Well I decided to no longer fall into the lame catagory so I'm trying my hand at labeling up the Pirelli Corsa's I'm running daily like the cars back in IMSA.

First you have to start with clean wheels...finally got around to polishing the 19x15's and 17x11's










On to the hand drawn stencils...








Art work in action:

[axvel]

+1 actually wanted to do this for some time now. But wasn't sure which paint to use. Let's see the end result. PM Sent

[Zeke]

In the 60's we used a white crayon sold for the purpose. Just hit the raised letters.

[Geronimo '74]

I did that with my car, posted pics over here and not everybody was a fan....... (long time ago)
(ok, my car was a stock 911, , not really in your league or universe for that matter... )

I filled in the lettering with a white marker (especially made for tires)

here's what it looked like, I still like it.
how about white lettering on your tire sidewalls?



(dude is that a cilinder coffee mug??? Awesome!!)

[ZAMIRZ]

Nice coffee mug dude.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by Reaper930

Well I decided to no longer fall into the lame catagory so I'm trying my hand at labeling up the Pirelli Corsa's I'm running daily like the cars back in IMSA.

LOL good one!

You were sooo lame before... the lettering will finally make your car worth a second glance...

[axvel]

I actually like what you did with Bridgestones

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

I did that with my car, posted pics over here and not everybody was a fan....... (long time ago)
(ok, my car was a stock 911, , not really in your league or universe for that matter... )

I filled in the lettering with a white marker (especially made for tires)

here's what it looked like, I still like it.
how about white lettering on your tire sidewalls?



(dude is that a cilinder coffee mug??? Awesome!!)

[Geronimo '74]

Yep, you did not swing the words mullet and camaro at me...

Thanks

[mickey356]

I ordered a can of whitewall paint and filled the letters on my tires (not my sc) and it looked great............. for a few weeks. I ended up scrubbing it off not because I didn't like the look but because the letters looked pretty crappy and wouldn't clean up.

[Reaper930]

Wow guys - glad you dig it too! And that i'm following in some footsteps rather than being "retro".

Geronimo those look HAWT!!!!!!!! So gentlemenly n'schit, looks correct for the chassis...

On the mug, yes its something my company makes and its NOT FOR COFFEE ITS FOR BIER!!!!!!! hahahaha, well i use it for coffee too, but mainly beer.

The only problem with mine is that the lettering is SOOO tiny on the raised stuff so I had to go all out and hit some stencils...my freehand sucks! But it works for me after a few beers...

The paint I used was some "made for plastics" white paint from the autoparts store...we'll see how it holds up!

More pics (cuz that's what we wanna see anyways right?)

[Reaper930]

And done.....










And here is a shot of the originals I based my stencils on...

[wayner]

We need a broad side shot at a distance.

I never get tired of looking at that car.

Edit: oops, spoke too soon. Nice pics!

[PcarPhil]

More examples:

[axvel]

It completes the car.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

I did that with my car, posted pics over here and not everybody was a fan....... (long time ago)
(ok, my car was a stock 911, , not really in your league or universe for that matter... )

I filled in the lettering with a white marker (especially made for tires)

here's what it looked like, I still like it.
how about white lettering on your tire sidewalls?

A couple of posts from that thread:

Originally Posted by milt

Jeez, this goes all the way back to high school when we had Firestone 500's. You wanted everyone to know you had 500's, so you marked them just like the indy cars.



Very old school. (Very old's cool.)

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

It's SO old school it's prolly gonna be "in" soon....

I'm sure I don't know what I was saying in the parenthesis.

[Geronimo '74]

I like it too!
Just filling the raised portions of the letters would be too small. It worked for my car but my wheels are a tad smaller...
Maybe a scan of your freehand, edited for perfection and then cut out, would be even better.



(how much for the mug, and where do I order?)

[OffCamber00]

I am digging this too.

[Reaper930]

Milt: you probably put that in the () because thats how everyone says it "nowadays" wonder if the ricers will start doing this hahaha

Geronimo: Cylinder Mug/Stein, 24oz for the stein. avalible in battleship grey or satin black.

[juanbenae]

Originally Posted by Reaper930

wonder if the ricers will start doing this hahaha

ive noticed their new thing is track tow hooks out of the back of civics.

[WOLVERINE]

Love it.