Big Girls: 1965 Pontiac Bonneville

[Bills72sj]

On 10/22/2023 at 3:52 PM, slusher said:

Sweet interior!!

Thank you, Carl.

[Bills72sj]

I was nearing final assembly and discovered my intended choice of tires were not to my liking. With the chosen tires in mock up, they just looked too dinky in the rear wheel wells. I raided the parts box and was left disappointed. Some of my sets of white walls were wide enough but not tall enough. Others were tall enough but were just way too skinny. Yes, there are decals out in the world but they look like well... decals. Hand painting a PERFECT width and concentric white circle is WAY beyond my talents. So I got creative. I found some black wall tires the were both tall enough and wide enough. With the right wheel backs the Pontiac 8 lug wheels fit very nice as well. I chucked them up in my lathe on a 7/16" deep socket. I mounted an #11 Exacto knife blade in a tool stand and sliced two perfectly concentric circles in the side wall. I then slowly sliced out all the rubber/vinyl between them. I then used a stick pin to dab thinned white paint into the newly formed groove. It was a bit messy but once the edges were cleaned up. They looked PERFECT. Now I have some appropriately sized white walls for the rear of both Bonnevilles.

[Slotto]

They look nice! Great job

[rickcaps55]

Looking great i really love that body color. I use that green world chrome to i think it looks more like real chrome then what we get in the kits most of the time the bumper came out great.