When I got the car it came with a set of 15 x 8 snowflakes. Although I like the look of those rims I don't think they look right on an early second gen car, (JMO). So, I swapped the 4 snowflakes for a set of 5, 15 x 7 rally II's. I have a sandblast cabinet but it takes forever to blast rims so I took them to a local sandblasting place and had the blasted. It cost me $25.00 per rim and another $10.00 each to have them epoxy primed. I had a choice of black or gray primer and I picked the gray. I had ordered all the paints and stencil kit from Eastwoods a few years ago for another project that I never finished so I had everything I needed to restore the wheels. I didn't care for the stencil kit, they didn't stick well (maybe due to age) so I wound up just taping them off myself. It's time consuming, but I'm happy with the results. I used all Eastwoods stuff, the silver, charcoal, and satin clear and the wheels turned out real nice. I left the back of the rims unpainted I just clear coated right over the gray primer.
I'm going to run 245/60/15 tires and I had intended to use trim rings, since I think they would accent the paint nicely, but now I'm not so sure. I would really hate to scratch those rims by putting trim rings on.
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