Dedicated Day 2 Thread - Page 13

**Salvatore** · #**121** 04-09-2010, 04:27 PM

I never did it either Mike on the brake drums or undercarriage BUT may look cool now with my car being Fathom green and checking out some old magazines. Can always repaint the drums easy enough.

**Tommy** · #**122** 04-09-2010, 04:48 PM

I remember when I was a kid talking to a construction worker in my neighborhood who drove in each morning in a GTO. He had painted his Drums red to match his car. He had a torque thrust style wheel and the drums were very visible. I have never seen white though. I remember the guy looked a lot like Steven Tyler from Aerosmith.... The GTO also has glasspacks and shackles and several things hanging from the rear view mirror.. Maybe a squirrel tail or red tail hawk feathers...

Tommy

**owners2** · #**123** 04-09-2010, 05:02 PM

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Any of you old Day-2 guys ever paint your brake drums white back in the old days? I was toying with that idea. Opinions?

[/ QUOTE ]I have a copper 71 Z that the rear wheel wells & brake drums are white,kinda looks cool & i haven't changed it & my lime green 71 Z that's posted in this thread with big aluminum slots & L88 hood has it's gas tank painted white & from behind it looks cool & i haven't touched it.

427TJ · #**124** 04-09-2010, 07:37 PM

I remember the lowriders painting brake drums white. Richmond/East Bay area, California, 1970s. Usually five-spoke Rocket deep-dish mags with small WWs.

**scuncio** · #**125** 04-09-2010, 09:08 PM

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Sammy...

Some things were done ,"Back in the day" that I never thought were cool, painting anything white on the undercarriage might be one of them

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The fenderwells and front frame stub on my COPO Chevelle were painted white by the original owner. Might have looked cool with the tube-around-the-framerail Super Comp headers.

**mockingbird812** · #**126** 04-09-2010, 10:21 PM

White undercarriage is a good thing (it preserves a non undercoated car

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**Salvatore** · #**127** 04-09-2010, 10:24 PM

Jenkins painted all his gas tanks white to reflect the heat.

**SmallHurst** · #**128** 04-09-2010, 11:50 PM

Some racers did it to see if they had a fluid leakage.

x Baldwin Motion · #**129** 04-10-2010, 03:24 AM

Fuel leakage, heat reflection... whatever... they did it 'cause everyone else did. White gas tank and rear end. In 1978 I shocked everyone with gloss black paint on my 12 bolt, drum to drum. Left the gas tank unpainted. That was the end of the white undercarriage in this area. Dog? what say you?

**PxTx** · #**130** 04-10-2010, 04:30 AM

You can see the white wheel wells on my pop's car here, which I think was abut 1970.

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