Oxidized old mag wheels help!

[Critters914]

I bought a 72 914 two months ago. It had been in storage for the past ten years...........in a barn. The riviara mags are oxidized real bad. Does any one have any sugestions on how I can bring them back to life and maybe get some kind of shine back? they look really bad!

Thanks Chrisyou can see my car here

[Bruce Allert]

That looks like my car (mine orange) when I got it. It was in a barn for 10 years too!
Here's a link to a post here on Pelican for polishing those wheels up... good luck. polishing fuchs
bruce

[maf 914]

How about media blasting followed by paint or powder coating? I am not a real fan of polished wheels in most cases. Just an opinion.

Mike

[Critters914]

Thanks Guys for your input. it's strating to look like what I already thought, A lot of elbow grease and time. I like the media blasting Idea, but I don't know of any place locally I can have it done.
Anyone else with other ideas PLEASE post them. I like these rims but they look pretty ruff.

Thanks again Chris

[mikeferg75]

These are my current wheels. They looked sad when I started but after about 4-5 hours per wheel this is what they look like. 2 tubs Mothers polish, my drill and a 3 buffing pads. Lots of flinging polish and cursing

http://gallery.rennlist.com/gallery/albun34

I want to take my extra set of 2.0 fuch's and polish the outer lip, and paint/powdercoat the whole insides flat black. These are going to be my track wheels. Anybody with photoshop care to create an image of this for me?

Thanks in advance Ferg.

[mikester]

Ferg, those are damn nice looking. I can relate too, when I got my Fuchs they were painted black like usual. I wanted mine to look like yours more or less. So, I started working on them. I spent about 5 hours per wheel and they still don't look as nice as yours.

The anodyzing on mine was in real bad shape so I went to work polishing it off.

In the end, they look pretty nice. I do however want them nicer and I think I'll end up paying someone to do it.