Alcoa help
06-07-2010, 10:44 PM
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Andretti,
I was on the Shelby site today searching for a solution to my problem, but I'm not registered over there and have never posted (I only rarely go over there). I did see you on there and I have to say I love you car. I was really tempted to do my stripes with the delete at the front KR style like you did, and then put the old school F O R D letters up front like they did in the 60's instead of the SHELBY letters, but I decided to just stripe it.
Back on topic, they do look really cheap in all the pics, and I found some nice metal ones with the cobra logo from American Racing for cheaper, but after talking to the company selling them I found they won't fit. So I just pulled the trigger on a set of way overpriced plastic caps from latemodelrestoration.com, which had them for $99, the cheapest I could find. I threw in the shelby hood pins as well to save on shipping, so it's a little easier to swallow, but it is still disappointing.
I even called Alcoa proper today, and got bounced around from their wheel division (mostly dualie and heavy truck wheels, they have never heard of the Super Snake rims, and couldn't even find them in their system after I read them part numbers) to their "Special" division in Cleveland. The guy at Cleveland knew exactly what I was talking about, and I tried real hard to get him to sell me some of the chrome Alcoa logoed center caps that they have in all the promos, but he said that he couldn't sell them to me, and that they are only for the promo's, and I had to deal with Shelby. And therein lies the problem. You put "Shelby" on anything and the price triples. Pay to play I guess.
I was on the Shelby site today searching for a solution to my problem, but I'm not registered over there and have never posted (I only rarely go over there). I did see you on there and I have to say I love you car. I was really tempted to do my stripes with the delete at the front KR style like you did, and then put the old school F O R D letters up front like they did in the 60's instead of the SHELBY letters, but I decided to just stripe it.
Back on topic, they do look really cheap in all the pics, and I found some nice metal ones with the cobra logo from American Racing for cheaper, but after talking to the company selling them I found they won't fit. So I just pulled the trigger on a set of way overpriced plastic caps from latemodelrestoration.com, which had them for $99, the cheapest I could find. I threw in the shelby hood pins as well to save on shipping, so it's a little easier to swallow, but it is still disappointing.
I even called Alcoa proper today, and got bounced around from their wheel division (mostly dualie and heavy truck wheels, they have never heard of the Super Snake rims, and couldn't even find them in their system after I read them part numbers) to their "Special" division in Cleveland. The guy at Cleveland knew exactly what I was talking about, and I tried real hard to get him to sell me some of the chrome Alcoa logoed center caps that they have in all the promos, but he said that he couldn't sell them to me, and that they are only for the promo's, and I had to deal with Shelby. And therein lies the problem. You put "Shelby" on anything and the price triples. Pay to play I guess.
06-08-2010, 10:35 AM
#13
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Missouri
Posts: 474
Andretti,
I was on the Shelby site today searching for a solution to my problem, but I'm not registered over there and have never posted (I only rarely go over there). I did see you on there and I have to say I love you car. I was really tempted to do my stripes with the delete at the front KR style like you did, and then put the old school F O R D letters up front like they did in the 60's instead of the SHELBY letters, but I decided to just stripe it.
Back on topic, they do look really cheap in all the pics, and I found some nice metal ones with the cobra logo from American Racing for cheaper, but after talking to the company selling them I found they won't fit. So I just pulled the trigger on a set of way overpriced plastic caps from latemodelrestoration.com, which had them for $99, the cheapest I could find. I threw in the shelby hood pins as well to save on shipping, so it's a little easier to swallow, but it is still disappointing.
I even called Alcoa proper today, and got bounced around from their wheel division (mostly dualie and heavy truck wheels, they have never heard of the Super Snake rims, and couldn't even find them in their system after I read them part numbers) to their "Special" division in Cleveland. The guy at Cleveland knew exactly what I was talking about, and I tried real hard to get him to sell me some of the chrome Alcoa logoed center caps that they have in all the promos, but he said that he couldn't sell them to me, and that they are only for the promo's, and I had to deal with Shelby. And therein lies the problem. You put "Shelby" on anything and the price triples. Pay to play I guess.
I was on the Shelby site today searching for a solution to my problem, but I'm not registered over there and have never posted (I only rarely go over there). I did see you on there and I have to say I love you car. I was really tempted to do my stripes with the delete at the front KR style like you did, and then put the old school F O R D letters up front like they did in the 60's instead of the SHELBY letters, but I decided to just stripe it.
Back on topic, they do look really cheap in all the pics, and I found some nice metal ones with the cobra logo from American Racing for cheaper, but after talking to the company selling them I found they won't fit. So I just pulled the trigger on a set of way overpriced plastic caps from latemodelrestoration.com, which had them for $99, the cheapest I could find. I threw in the shelby hood pins as well to save on shipping, so it's a little easier to swallow, but it is still disappointing.
I even called Alcoa proper today, and got bounced around from their wheel division (mostly dualie and heavy truck wheels, they have never heard of the Super Snake rims, and couldn't even find them in their system after I read them part numbers) to their "Special" division in Cleveland. The guy at Cleveland knew exactly what I was talking about, and I tried real hard to get him to sell me some of the chrome Alcoa logoed center caps that they have in all the promos, but he said that he couldn't sell them to me, and that they are only for the promo's, and I had to deal with Shelby. And therein lies the problem. You put "Shelby" on anything and the price triples. Pay to play I guess.
Please post some pics when its all done! I've no doubt it will look excellent.
Andretti
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