Degrease first, lots of heavy duty detergent then HOT steam cleaner/pressure washer. Then overnight in Evaporust. Then use a chemical stripper to remove paint. Once stripped give it another steam cleaning treatment with detergent. Use Ospho (or similar acid wash with a phosphate residual) to clean bare metal and neutralize any flash rust. This should result in a bare rim with no additional blasting required. Treat the pits like bodywork, add filler in bad areas, use high build primer for lighter areas, sand away almost all of it so only the filled pits with filler/primer are remaining against the clean bare steel.


If striving for absolute originality don't use a primer coating, just paint per factory. Most were sprayed gloss black (factory used cheap paint, was not very glossy) on the backside, then color was shot onto the outside with no hole masking allowing for color overspray onto the black through the holes.

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