Painted drives other than black.....
 

who all has painted there drives another color????I saw a picture of Parnells Sabre and I fell inlive with the red drives....anyone else painted them???

Mines powder coated black (upper) and silver (bottom). Looks awesome.

All you gotta do is put one of those indian head stickers on the side of your boat and your all clear to paint the drives any pastel color you want!!!!!

brett , remind me never to ruffle your feathers:D

Yep, and then you can ask twice as much for it as it is realistically worth!!!

I painted the drives on Formula. Purple uppers with silver bottoms they looked great.

Mark

They're not #6's, but it's a nice sort of charcoal metallic. (I ddn't paint them.)

It's a bummer that Volvo doesn't make those packages any more, they would make a great set up on a single screw 26-28 footer.

ASD's #8
 

Nice grey metallic

what kind of paint did you use and does it last?

ASD's #8
 

Grey metallic

ASD's #8 torque tubes
 

metallic grey

even trannies
 

hubers

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:D

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.

I saw a set of drives on a Apache from chicago and they were painted white.

They looked great, but that was on the trailer going down highway 70 at about 80mph.

Randy

Black Top Silver bottom emron. rag's

Silver from Cigarette factory:
Lowers are now polished though.

There was a thread with a bunch of pics about this once. It had pics of BCC's Ruckus (now in Chicago) with pink drives.

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.

imron not emron;)

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I know this guy that owns one of those boats with the indian heads on'em....his drives are painted like a roll of lifesavers and are mounted to purple engines! I like to say it's Barney(the purple dinosaur) with a rollof lifesavers stuffed up his A$$!! Anyone ever seen this boat? How about you Warpaint?:p

I know the boat well - it's got some of my blood, skin, and head hair on the port skeg...

Works great on my 28' Bat. I have a pair of 1.59:1's for sale, if anyone needs 'em..

Pictures here

So thats what was stuck to the tangerine skeg!!:hothead:

Those drives boxes and tabs are now purple. And they look pretty good.

Color Changing #6's with polished skeg.