White wheels on white cars

[Stang]

Just waiting for a quote to get my Ceffy's paint touched up, changing the bonnet to white and fixing up a few little dings and scratches in the front quarter panels and bumpers. The rest of the body is very straight, clean and completely rust free, so tidying up a few little bits and pieces will make it look pretty good for an older car. Not many around that aren't hammered-to-death drift pigs. Once that gets done and I get the front mount installed, I'll be pretty happy with the car for now.

After having it sit in the garage for nearly a year, just being able to take it out for a few minutes' exercise every couple of days has been really good. The clutch is a bit heavy for my weak left leg sometimes, after jumping in it a few days ago to take it around the block, my leg started shaking a lot almost straight away from the effort of pushing the clutch in. It hasn't happened that badly before, must have been extra tired that day or something.



After looking at it some more, I'm thinking that those black strips on the front and rear bumpers will clash with the rest of the clean white look. I initially thought they were rubber, but after tapping on them they feel sort of similar to the bumpers. Does anyone know what they're made of? Was wondering whether they could be removed when the bumpers are resprayed, or if just painting over them would be ok?


And regarding the thread title- I've also had a bit of a look around at other Ceffies, and there's a couple of a white one similar to mine with dished white rims which I quite like the look of, offset is a bit much though.






That said, they do look kinda expensive and I don't exactly have lots of money to burn on a set of wheels. I was pondering whether getting the current Buddy Club P1s powder-coated or painted might be a good look to continue the white theme.

Thoughts? And any more pics of cars with the white & white look?

Here are a couple more of Cefiros with white rims...






..and some random other examples of white rims on white cars.

[GTREA]

Certainly the white on white can and does work.

But it can also be a massive fail.

A chrome rim around the wheel and some dish certainly helps the look, but not always nessacary as the GTS 1 Skyline looks works for me.

To much white on the vehicle itself dosnt help either, needs some contrast, black window surrounds, black mirrors maybe.....otherwise you look like someone from the early 90s when people were just colour coding everything....as was the fashion back then.

Having said that don't change your wheels to white.....I like what you have ;-)

[FUBAR]

Do want please...

[Lonx]

Do want please...

Fight you for it

[niggerjewz]

do it!

[tremolo]

Needs to be an 80s car IMO

[baggins]

Hrm... all I can see in my head is how much better looking all of those cars would be with charcoal/dark grey rims. And there is a lot of fine machinery there.

[Rona]

Bronze on white works well too.

[big_pete]

Hrm... all I can see in my head is how much better looking all of those cars would be with charcoal/dark grey rims. And there is a lot of fine machinery there.

Agreed.

For White on White to work it has to be perfect.

This is about the only one I like

[TJ]

P1's are not white friendly IMHO.

Leave it as is.

[Q]

......with dished white rims which I quite like the look of....

Just a practical consideration given your health constraints....
How much brake dust do your brake pads drop ?
x 10 when you have white wheels ! ......[or orange for that matter ]

[R32Big_boy]

White work miester's with the chrome dish. Doo eeet or get a punch in the vagina.
A mate has these on his white 180 track car and it looks tops. Kriss also has similar on his grey ceffy which i think you posted a photo of in the old school thread.

[takai]

White on white is awesome, pretty much all my cars have had white on white wheels:
Corolla:


Cressy:


Spoontarse:


Hilux:


Supra was going to have white wheels as well, but i sold it before i could get the wheels powdercoated.

[Sketchy]

White car + white wheels = the shit


Q: What sort of hektik drift poof has orange wheels anyway?

[Q]

Q: What sort of hektik drift poof has orange wheels anyway?

STFU hubcap boy

[TCR]

Just a practical consideration given your health constraints....
How much brake dust do your brake pads drop ?
x 10 when you have white wheels ! ......[or orange for that matter ]

^ This is definitely worth consideration. Had white wheels on my first track car, admittedly with a "track" pad, but never again!

White on white can work but depends on the car and type of wheel.

[dsturbed]

do it!

[Sebstar]

That delta is fucking hot!

[Adrian128]

White on white can look great.. but IMO the whiteness of wheels should be as close to the body colour as possible. I've seen some cars that have a pearl white finish, while the rims are a different white.. more like a simple gloss white, or washing machine white.. and it just looks wrong..

[RNS-11Z]

[chino]

Hrm... all I can see in my head is how much better looking all of those cars would be with charcoal/dark grey rims. And there is a lot of fine machinery there.

+24556556

dark or black wheels on white is win just about every time. Gotta have some contrast in there!

[Setanta]

As the owner of a car with spoked white wheels, all I can say is "don't". After a car wash they stay white until I leave my driveway and that's it.

[methodmania]

Bronze on white works well too.

Hell yeah, my ride from ten years ago.

[AndyMac]

[CXTdreamer]

I'd paint the side strips black instead of the front and rear ones white, but thats just me, I like a bit of contrast.

I had white P1's on the MX5 for a while



Not sure I'd get yours powdercoated though, they're a nice colour. Actually, if you want white wheels, do you want to sell those? They'd look awesome on my DR30

[floody]

Yes to white on white, however no to white-P1s-on-white, need to have substantial, thick spokes to carry it off, makes them look a bit spindly and skinny otherwise (less so in 15").

[RichieBoy]

White on white is the goodness.
Keeping it clean is a cunt.

[Daisy]

I'm liking this thread. I have a set of Momo Sports that need repainting and though I'm not certain the design lends itself to white, it won't be as bad as some of the Ronals.

[scrad]

white on white is win.

My chaser:

[MRMOPARMAN]

dont need a million pics to know white on white works.

infact, almost any colour looks horn on white cars. worry more about the style.

factor brake dust too. that shit is aids on white wheels