10-12-2022, 12:53 PM | #1 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Sweden
Posts: 1,809
| My spare wheel cover
You can spend $5 on a mass produced cover made of fake leather. But I don't like fake leather, so I made my own cover from vegetably tanned reindeer leather. Colored it charcoal to match the crawler's details. Hand stitched with linen thread and used a regular paintbrush to add the text. Then applied some leather oil to finish the job. The "spare wheel" is fake though. Underneath the cover is a 2.2" racing rim that I carved away lots of material from to make it lighter, and a simple foam to hold the cover in the shape of a wheel. This way it's as light as possible and the least intrusive on the driving. |
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10-12-2022, 01:07 PM | #2 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Austin Texas
Posts: 1,615
| Re: My spare wheel cover
Very innovative. Cool |
10-12-2022, 04:28 PM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: SOCAL
Posts: 278
| Re: My spare wheel cover
Nice one!!! looks top notch and proper.
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10-12-2022, 09:29 PM | #4 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: USA
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| Re: My spare wheel cover
But but but bbbbut the real ones are made of vinyl/naugahyde/pleather! Pretty cool. |
10-13-2022, 12:07 AM | #5 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Sweden
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10-13-2022, 12:14 AM | #6 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Sweden
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| Re: My spare wheel cover Thanks! I think "top notch and proper" is a good way to describe what I've been going for with the overall look of this crawler. |
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