Painted drives other than black.....
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You will need to sandblast the entire drive for the paint to stick. I used imron, but painted them black. You can blast them yourself at a place in Hamilton, just make sure you duct tape all holes and areas you don't want sand in and have at it. I would also say you want to make sure it is a color you can live with for a long time, red is good but some of the pastels will go out of flavor and then you are stuck with pink drives. I bet with the blasting, painting, and color sanding you could be up to 6-700 bucks per drive, and that would be doing most of the work yourself. I'll help you remove them if you want. I have a big tree in my yard that we can tie them to and just rip them off
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Mine the top have is powder coated HP blue and the bottom have painted silver because to the nose cone. I am redoing the bottom this year because the cheap paint did not hold up.
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I painted my lower metallic silver. I scuffed the merc black and shot a epoxy primer. I then sprayed the silver with a rust-oleum rattle can. I top coated with some rattle can clear. Other than the tip of the skeg it has held up very well. The paint on the skeg skeg wore off when it got dragged through some muck.