[Miata] Painted wheels

[Larry Alster]

Yup, that's about what my car looks like when those wheels are on.

Got mine in 96 from Tommy just in time to put new tires on for the Miata 
Games in Atlanta.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Spray" <gaspray at cox.net>
To: <miata at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Miata] Painted wheels


> At 08:47 AM 2/11/2007, Larry Alster wrote:
>>I don't have them painted white, I have them factory white.  One of about 
>>400 sets that Mazda produced but never installed on cars.  I got them from 
>>Tommy of Finishline back in 1996.
>
> I got mine from him. They were apparently produced for the Mazda 
> Competition Parts program. When I went to my first Solo 2 Nationals in 
> 1997 I noticed that about half of the 1.6 Miatas were wearing these white 
> wheels. A couple of years later Tommy got ahold of some and was selling 
> them for $70 each and I bought four. Sometime later I happened to be 
> talking on the phone to Mazda Competition Parts and discovered that they 
> had 14X5.5 stock alloys ("..but they're white") for $50 each. I ordered 
> eight of them. Alas they called me back less than an hour later  to say 
> that they shipped out the last of them the day before.
>
>>
>>Unfortunately I can't find any pictures posted anywhere with the wheels on 
>>the car.
>
> Here is mine from the Miata Net Garage:
>
> http://www.miata.net/garage/top01.jpg
>
> Yes, they came with perfectly painted white hubcaps too.
>
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