I am planning to send some tires off to Diamond Back so they can smooth out the sidewalls and I want to add GoodYear insignia like on the photo below of the Vintage Trans Am Race Car. I never attempted to paint rubber or if there is a method to do this and not have it crack. Anyone sell stencils or transfers? Shoot me some ideas its a winter project.
alot of those were done with a tire crayon, some molded into the rubber. i have used one shot and just lettered it on by hand with good results. also, sign shops can cut ya a vini=yl stencil that will work with most paints or vinyl dye. might look a little odd without the raised letters in the tire though skull
I have an ancient pair of Goodyear Blue Streaks and I'd swear the lettering was sprayed on through a stencil. Adding flex agent or maybe so flexible trim touch up paint in a spray can, have a sign shop cut you a stencil.
A lot of guys use white Krylon to paint white walls on their tires. Maybe you could do what skullhat said and get a stencil cut, then use that paint. The paint is kinda plasticy, so it flexes a little bit.
I agree they werent raised letters. I see Vintage Trans Am and Cobras at the track all the time the tires look to be sprayed. I think its easily dont with the right product but i wonder if any tire shine will ruin it or from drag stripping my car hard will cause the paint to crack and look bad. I want the worn vintage look i think its cool. Hope someone on here has done it and can recommend a specific paint and process.
krylon fusion. its used for plastic and rubber pieces. good stuff. its what the guys use for widewhites.
I've made wide whites with Krylon and it doesn't hold up for ****. I have also done wide whitewalls with snow-seal, it's a white elastic roof coating used on trailer roofs. It's much more flexible, has been on my '55 Dodge tires for at least 3 years and is holding up well, but the problem there is that you can't really spray it, and your picture looks like it's sprayed lightly and not full-power white. Someone else suggested using a product called rubber ink, apparently it's used to print on balloons and inflatable boats and **** like that. I'm going to try it to make some redlines, might work for your process too since it'd be more sprayable.
RACELINEDIGITAL.COM They sell vintage tire stencils. it is done with simple Krylon or whatever you have. I guess there will be 2 of us running around NY with the same tires.
Rubber Ink sounds cool it might give that faded worn look. Anyone know where to get some? Gotwood you did this already? Post up s photo in the thread to share with us, where are you in NYC?
most paints will soak into the rubber a bit and hold up better than you think. i used the same process on restored motorcycle seats, a stencil for instance the honda logo on old minis, and sprayed through a stencil with base coat paint and its still there after 10 years or so. you could also use a little bulldog 1st, (clear adhesion promoter)
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