Black front rims or shiny?

[jmcarter]

Originally Posted by voltdr

This stuff goes way back to when we used to have the old photocells on the starting line. We used to call it "shine-back". Back then, if the angle of the sun was just right it would reflect the light back to the photocell and the photocell didn't know your tire was in the beam. If you look at old pictures of cars on the starting line you would notice shoe polish on the side with the sun.
Dan

Bingo...gee has it been that long? I recall at Bristol (1986?) the starter had a can of black spray and he would shoot anybody's wheels that were shiny...we are talking Super Trick wheel days so bet he used a case that race.