Gwampa

Hey Max...love the pictures (where are the babes??). Gotta warn you about somthing. If and when you buy wheels for your Malibu, please check the lug bolt spread. I gave you some incorrect information recently and wanted you to not get stiffed by somthing I said. So now your warned (an I feel some better). Have fun with the car...she's a beaut (old folks talk for pretty).

maximan1

I'm looking for a job currently, so when I get one I will probably go about getting the new rims. I'm applying at Knott's Berry Farm . When I buy new rims I will get all that figured out.

All the girls were too busy laughing at my whiteness...I need a tan.

I want to do something to the car, but not too sure what to do yet. I don't want to spend a lot of cash, but I don't want to make it look like a piece of crap.

I know I'm re-painting the bumpers next year in auto body class because the back bumper was hit and repainted cheaply, now some of the new paint is peeling and the front bumper is starting to fade in places plus I want to take off the front plate (so I would just have the Chevrolet lettering under it) but a lot of the paint is peeled off under the front plate.

Is it legal not to have a front plate? Because I want to bondo over the holes for the plate screws when I repaint the bumper.

And for the record, I will be doing this the right way (stripping all paint completely off) not the common way (paint over whats already there)

EvansBlue

In Cali, you have to have two plates. They were trying to pass that in NC, but it didn't fly at all!

Rims would be the best thing you could put on that car.


Don't worry, I don't have much of a tan either when I was 15... but I rarely went without a shirt.
(The date is a year ahead on the camera) When I was 15-



AND now...

maximan1

What kind of rims is the question though...

Also I'm currently debating whether to grow my hair out (get dreadlocks) or cut it again.

Edit: I know that they have the both plates law here in Cali, but my dad hasn't had his front plate for as long as I can remember, he just carries it in the car with him. Every Corvette I see doesn't have a front plate, or any old VW bug. A lot of kids at school don't have front plates either. Nobody I know has ever had any trouble with no front plate. Should I just go for it?

EvansBlue

Don't get dreds.

Don't get the el cheapo rims, they look terrible. Get some chrome rims.

maximan1

No dreads? Why not?

Yes I know not to get cheapass rims, but I'm not sure which kind I should get. I might surf craigslist and local junkyards for something like these...or buy new.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/pts/1104234960.html

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/pts/1104123064.html

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/pts/1103933516.html

Maybe even this

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/pts/1099070215.html


Whatever I can find that will fit

Gwampa

EvansBlue is right. Dreads probably ain't gonna fly in your house anyhow. And I really wanted chrome smoothie "wheels" on my Malibu. So I second his vote(s)..

maximan1

Any suggestions on what wheels to get Fred?
I really have no idea...I'll take everyones suggestions.

EvansBlue

Dreds just look kinda dirty...I don't know any chicks that dig em.

And what the hell kind of rims are you linking to?
link 1- 8-lug. for trucks
link 2- both sets in this link are trailer rims
link 3- They don't look that good at all. For a classic car or mid-size truck, maybe.
link 4- They came off a 60's Mustang and a more than showing their age.

maximan1

I was just linking to the kind I think would look good on my car...I wasn't looking for anything particular.