{"id":603,"date":"2020-08-22T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:25:24","slug":"freshening-center-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/22\/freshening-center-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshening Center Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The car came with a set of rally rims including trim rings and center caps.\u00a0 As other details of the car came together, the center caps started looking a bit rough by comparison.\u00a0 I’m not looking for a 100% concours restoration, I just want it to look cleaner.<\/p>\n

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First step was pulling the cap and scrubbing the loose paint and dirt off of it.\u00a0 I hit it with a toothbrush and some brakleen spray, and that did a decent job.<\/p>\n

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Next step was masking it off a bit before painting<\/p>\n

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Then I hit it with some satin black paint<\/p>\n

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Then I uncovered the top and gave that a quick spray to fill in the lettering<\/p>\n

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Then I wiped the paint off of the face with a paper towel and a little brakleeen spray.\u00a0 A couple of passes, and the paint was removed from the face completely.<\/p>\n

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Next step was carefully wiping the paint off of the ribs on the cap, again using a paper towel and a little solvent spray.<\/p>\n

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and…finished product:<\/p>\n

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The car came with a set of rally rims including trim rings and center caps.\u00a0 As other details of the car came together, the center caps started looking a bit rough by comparison.\u00a0 I’m not looking for a 100% concours restoration, I just want it to look cleaner. First step was pulling the cap and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-and-paint","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}